The Moroccan Foreign Ministry said on Monday, that it has dispatched 40 tons of medical aid to Palestinians in war-torn Gaza.
They include surgery equipment and supplies to treat burns and fractures as well as medicine for children, it said.
The aid was airlifted and will be loaded into Palestinian Red Crescent trucks at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, which was first used by Morocco to deliver aid earlier in March,
Moroccan authorities claim they are leveraging their relationship with Israel to promote peace and defend Palestinian rights. However, there have been numerous protests in Moroccan cities criticising these ties since the onset of the war in Gaza.
Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza was triggered after Hamas’s fighters stormed into southern Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive to Hamas’s violent intrusion into Israeli territory on October 7 has killed more than 37,600 people, according to Palestinian health authorities, and left the vast majority of Gaza in ruins.