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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Israel allows shipment of rescue vehicles into Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael allowed the import of around 20 rescue and firefighting vehicles into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian officials say.
The equipment, which was donated by Qatar, includes several SUVs fitted with water pumps. Gaza’s Civil Defense previously had just 33 vehicles to serve the territory’s two million people, including a single fire truck with a hydraulic platform.
Raed al-Dahshan, a spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense, says Tuesday’s shipment is “unprecedented.”
The Civil Defense said no firefighting equipment has been allowed into Gaza since 2007, and the last shipment of fire trucks was brought in by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in 1998.
— AP
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