20 expert healthcare professionals and health ministry staff from Türkiye also arrive in the plane, evaluate medical assistance for Gaza with Egyptian officials.
Gaza has been under Israeli bombardment and blockade since October 7, when Hamas initiated Operation Al Aqsa Flood. / Photo: AA
A group of 20 expert healthcare professionals were also on board the plane, which landed at around noon in Cairo after taking off from Ankara Esenboga Airport in the Turkish capital at 0745GMT on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement. "Our plane has taken off for Gaza with aid. The presidential plane, loaded with medicine and medical supplies, and carrying 20 expert physicians, is now en route from Ankara to Egypt," Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca previously said on X.
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