TV: Israel sent medical team to Sudan in failed attempt to save diplomat

27 May 2020, 9:05 pm

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Israel sent a plane with medical staff and equipment to Sudan in an attempt to save the life of a diplomat sick with COVID-19, who managed the clandestine ties between Jerusalem and Khartoum, Channel 13 reports.

But a day after their arrival, Najwa Gadaheldam had died.

According to the television report, the plane landed in Khartoum carrying a senior official involved in ties with Sudan, medical staff and equipment, after hearing of her illness. They planned to transport Gadaheldam to Israel for treatment, but arrived too late, when she was already in critical condition.

The report says Gadaheldam was the key figure in arranging the February meeting between Sudan’s leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Uganda.