1,000 Gaza children to arrive in UAE within a week for treatment

Around 1,000 Palestinian children from Gaza and their families are set to arrive to the UAE for medical care.

The decision comes according to the UN Security Council’s adoption of the first resolution on the Israeli war on Palestine.

“That work has already begun, and we hope to receive the first group within the coming week,” Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s Permanent Representative to the UN stated, as she addressed the council.

Thi comes under directions from the UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Thursday.

The UN body adopted a resolution calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors” in Gaza for “a sufficient number of days” — six weeks after the war started.

The resolution is “vital” for the UAE to establish an emergency field hospital in the Gaza Strip, said the Emirati diplomat.

The UAE has already flown the medical equipment and supplies required to set up the field hospital to Al Arish Airport in Egypt.

Extended humanitarian pauses will help the country begin the 150-bed hospital, the UAE government said.

The UAE welcomed the adoption of the resolution — “the first one on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2016”.

However, it marks only the beginning of the world’s response to the war and the crisis in Gaza, said Nusseibeh.

“Too much time has passed, too many people have been killed, and too much destruction has been wrought,” she added.