Iran plans to send aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip after Egypt said it would allow the shipment to enter the Palestinian territory, an Iranian diplomatic source says.
The official IRNA news agency says Cairo had agreed to transfer humanitarian aid bound for the coastal enclave, citing a foreign ministry source in Tehran.
The source says a first Iranian Red Crescent shipment of 100 tons of medicine and food would be flown “soon” to Cairo.
Tehran says at the end of July it had sent a first shipment of aid to Cairo that was awaiting authorization to enter the enclave via Rafah in southern Gaza, the only crossing point not controlled by Israel.
Iran does not recognize Israel and provides financial and military assistance to Islamist Palestinian groups.
Iranian officials have said that Tehran provided Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants with the technology necessary to make rockets.
Iran has condemned Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, and Tehran municipality renamed a key street where the UN headquarters is located “Gaza Avenue”.
— AFP, Times of Israel staff
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