Iran's Minister of Health Kamran Baqeri-Lankarani said that Iran is looking for ways to send medical aid for Palestinians in Gaza, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
Hundreds of Iranian doctors and nurses have claimed their readiness to be sent to Gaza to provide medical aid for the people there, Baqeri-Lankarani was quoted as saying.
He made the remarks in a meeting with Hamas representative to Iran, Abu Osameh Al-Mo'ti, at his office in Tehran.
Lankarani, however, complained that "the Iranian medical team has yet failed to reach Gaza since the government of Egypt refused to reopen borders leading into the besieged area."
He said that he still hopes "Cairo would allow entry of the injured from Gaza into Egypt so that they can be transferred to Iran."
Baqeri-Lankarani said with regret on Tuesday that a proposal on transferring the wounded Gazans to Iran was refused, according to IRNA.
Al-Mo'ti, on his part, said that "the besieged people of Gaza needed some 700 truckload of medical aid, foodstuff and fuel each day while only 17 trucks are given permission to enter Gaza on a daily basis."
On Tuesday, Iran's Red Crescent Society said in a statement that it was ready to set up a field hospital in the Gaza Strip or in one of the countries nearby "to help treat those wounded by Zionist regime's attacks on Gaza."
The statement carried by IRNA said that the society was also ready to transfer the wounded Gazans to Iran for treatment.
The Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip was under intensive Israeli air strikes for the fifth successive day on Wednesday, which have killed 380 Palestinians and injured 1,700 others.
Israel said the offensive was aimed at halting nearly daily cross-border rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
Hamas is strongly backed by Iran which does not recognize Israel as a state of the international community.
Source: Xinhua
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