(22 May 2024)
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Baghdad, Iraq – 22 May 2024
1. Iraqi military plane on tarmac
2. Various of injured being ferried to ambulance on stretchers
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saif Bader, spokesman for Iraqi health ministry:
“An Iraqi military plane has landed carrying 27 wounded Palestinians specifically from the Gaza Strip and based on the directives of the Iraqi government and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, all necessary health requirements, whether therapeutic or rehabilitative care, must be provided via the institutions of the Ministry of Health, which has completed its preparations for this purpose.”
4. Various of ambulances on tarmac
STORYLINE:
Iraq received 27 wounded Palestinians from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to be treated at Baghdad hospitals.
The Ministry of Health announced that the first group of wounded Palestinians from Gaza arrived on board an Iraqi military plane at Baghdad international airport via Egypt.
The group of 27 wounded individuals along with their relatives — mainly women, children, and the elderly — arrived from Egypt.
"Based on the directives of the Iraqi government and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, all necessary health requirements, whether therapeutic or rehabilitative treatment, must be provided via the institutions of the Ministry of Health, which have completed its preparations for this purpose,” Saif Bader, spokesman for the health ministry, told the AP.
The Iraqi health Ministry ambulances transported the wounded and their relatives to Baghdad Medical City, where they will receive medical treatment.
The Iraqi initiative to provide full medical treatment to the wounded in Gaza comes amid the deterioration of the health system in Gaza due to the ongoing war.
The U.N. warned that Gaza’s health care system is ‘on its knees’, with thousands of people waiting to be evacuated.
The war has killed at least 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.
AP video by Ali Jabar
Production by Ahmed Sami
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