India on Sunday sent a second batch of humanitarian aid to Gaza with the Israel-Hamas war entering its seventh week. “We continue to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Palestine.Second@IAF_MCCC17 aircraft carrying 32 tonnes of aid departs for the El-Arish Airport in Egypt,” EAM Jaishankar wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

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India sent the first cache of relief material to war-hit Gaza on October 22. The aid included essential life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities, and water purification tablets among other necessary items.

Israel launched a massive counteroffensive against Palestinian militant movement Hamas after the latter showered as many as 5,000 missiles in Israeli territory on October 7. Over 1,200 people were killed in the attack.

Palestinian health officials said the death toll in their country has surpassed the 10,000 mark, the majority of them women and children.

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Israel days back raided Gaza’s biggest Al-Shifa hospital, which it claimed was operation centre of Hamas. Officials of UN and WHO visited the hospital and said it had become a death zone.

 

 

 

 

 

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