France wants to welcome sick and injured children from the Gaza Strip who need urgent medical care. The Élysée Palace in Paris announced today that all available resources will be used to help transport children from the coastal area to French hospitals. A French Navy helicopter carrier for medical support is also expected to arrive in Egypt within a few days.
Another French aid flight carrying medical supplies is also scheduled to take off early in the week. So far, only relatively few injured people have managed to leave the isolated Gaza Strip. On Friday, according to the Egyptian Red Crescent, there were more than 70 and a group of children who were to be treated in the UAE. The Gulf State has offered to take in up to 1,000 children from the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on the phone yesterday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. According to the Élysée Palace, both agreed that care for the injured in the Gaza Strip and the delivery of humanitarian aid should be more coordinated. More trucks would also have to reach the coastal area.