Much Of Gaza Flotilla ‘Aid’ Worthless Expired Medicines, Old Equipment

This is an update on this story.

From Un:Dhimmi:

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are overloaded with expired drugs and medicines, Palestinian officials said. The officials insisted on Thursday that the drugs and medicines, which were donated to the Gaza Strip by aid organisations all over the world over the last two years, had expired.

Only 30 percent of the medical aid, sent to Gaza after the last Israeli military offensive 19 months ago, were used at hospitals and medical aid centres, an official in the Hamas-ruled ministry of health said.

The official said that several countries as well as civil society organisations sent to the Gaza Strip huge amount of medical aid, which included drugs, medicines and equipment.

“Such random donations, mainly drugs had caused lots of problems,” he said. “22 percent of the medical aid sent to the Gaza Strip had its date expired, where different kinds of medical donations were not helpful for medical emergency and medical care.”

Officials in the ministry of health declined to reveal the names of the countries and organisations that sent expired drugs and medicines to the Gaza Strip over the past 19 months.

Israel has been imposing a tight blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has a population of 1.5 million people, after Islamic Hamas movement seized control of the costal enclave by force in 2007. Gaza rights groups said that around 300 patients died over the past three years due to medical aid shortage.

Whilst it may be argued that some medicines retain efficacy after their expiry dates and that old equipment may, in some circumstances, be better than no equipment; the reality is that the generally low grade of the so-called ‘aid’ sent to Gaza by the flotilla movement reveals rather more than it would like us to know about the true priorities of the Islamo-Left alliance behind it.

The true objective of the flotillas was, and remains, the destabilisation, delegitimisation – and ultimate destruction – of the Jewish State.

Meanwhile, Israel continues to send upwards of 100 trucks per day of real aid into Gaza.

[Source: Hindustan Times]