Third tranche of Singapore Red Cross aid worth $815,000 for Gaza

An emergency humanitarian kitchen set up in Egypt's North Sinai, near the border with Gaza, will aim to provide hot meals for at least 7,000 displaced families and medical evacuees daily, with the help of the Singapore Red Cross (SRC).

- Syarafana Shafeeq

This is part of the charity's third tranche of support, valued at US$600,000 (S$815,000), in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. After Hamas fighters attacked Israel on Oct 7, Israel retaliated with an air and ground campaign in Gaza.

The kitchen in North Sinai will serve those in temporary shelters run by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society (ERC).

SRC will also procure items like rice, flour and tuna from suppliers in Egypt to form food parcels, it said at a media briefing at its Dhoby Ghaut headquarters on April 24.

With the help of the ERC, the parcels will be sent to Gaza to support more than 9,000 families.

Each parcel can sustain a family of five for a week.