Turkish relief society (IHH) opens Gaza branch

Turkish relief society IHH opens its first branch in Gaza

[ 21/01/2009 - 03:49 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)– Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım, the president of the Turkish relief society IHH’s board of trustees, has opened the first branch of his society in the Gaza Strip in the presence of Palestinian health minister Basem Naim and MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the popular committee against the siege. Naim hailed the Turkish supportive role of the Palestinian people’s government and people, noting that Ankara was among the pioneering countries that contacted the Palestinian government and stood alongside the Palestinian people during the 23 days of Israeli “savage” aggression on the Strip. The minister asserted his government’s keenness on boosting the “brotherly relations” between the two people and on developing horizons of joint cooperation to serve both countries’ interests and to enhance the steadfastness of the people of Gaza who have been under tight siege for 19 months. Yıldırım, for his part, expressed surprise at the degree of destruction inflicted by the Israeli war machine on the Strip. He pledged to construct a modern hospital in Gaza and to offer 2000 dollars to each family that lost a home during the aggression. He also promised to treat wounded Palestinians in Turkish hospitals and to send two shiploads of relief material to the Strip.