Under the humanitarian assistance programme for the people of Palestine, India has handed over the first set of life-saving medicines to the Palestinian Presidency.
The medicines were handed over to the representative of presidency by the Indian Representative to Palestine in Ramallah.
As part of the medical aid worth Rs 10 crore, announced by India in the wake of the developments in Gaza
and West Bank, the assistance was handed over on Thursday, a ministry of external affairs release said in New Delhi on Friday.
Dr Younis Al-Khatib, advisor to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on health affairs, received the aid and thanked the Indian government and its people for the timely supply of life-saving drugs. He lauded India's firm stand with the Palestinians at the critical time, the release added.
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