Morocco has kicked off a campaign in a bid to lift the embargo imposed on the Gaza strip, local MAP news agency reported on Monday.
The campaign will collect tons of medicine and paramedical equipment and ship them on Tuesday from the Casablanca airport to Gaza, Khalid Sefiani, secretary of the General Congress of Arab Parties, was quoted as saying.
The shipment will be transported on Wednesday through the Rafah crossing point, in presence of the representatives of the organizations backing the campaign, the report added.
Speaking at a press conference, Sefiani called for a larger mobilization to lift the blockade, condemning what he described asa "collective genocide" against the Palestinian people.
He underlined that the initiative, which he said remains symbolic, is a must with regard to the growing needs of over a million people in Gaza.
The General Congress of Arab Parties had earlier in the year sent a shipment of humanitarian aids from the Maghreb countries, which was denied access to the Gaza strip.
The General Congress of Arab Parties, founded in 1990, considers itself a continuation of the first Arab conference held in Paris in 1913 and it aims at achieving objectives like Arab unity, democracy, social equity in the Arab world.
Source:Xinhua
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