French floating hospital arrives in Egypt to help wounded from Gaza
Kyiv • UNN
The French warship Dixmude, a floating hospital with 60 beds and two operating rooms, has arrived in Egypt to provide assistance to Palestinians wounded in Gaza. Despite the ceasefire, the situation remains dire, with hospitals overcrowded and without electricity.
The French warship Dixmude arrived on Monday on a humanitarian mission to the Egyptian port of El Arish, according to the newspaper Le Parisien, reports UNN.
Equipped to provide "hospital care", it has 60 medical beds intended for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who were seriously injured during the fighting between Israel and Hamas. It also has two operating rooms.
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The Dixmude left the naval base on November 20 and replaced another ship that had been off the Egyptian coast since late October.
Two of the three French helicopters were mobilized to provide humanitarian and medical assistance to hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
Writes that despite the truce between Israel and Hamas that came into force on Friday, the Palestinian enclave is in a catastrophic humanitarian situation, according to the UN and various non-governmental organizations. Hospitals are without electricity and overwhelmed with patients.
