Bayt Mal Al-Quds Asharif Agency launches Ramadan humanitarian operation in Holy City
Upon the instructions of King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, Bayt Mal Al-Quds Asharif Agency launched, this Thursday in the Holy City, a humanitarian aid operation on the esplanades of Augusta Victoria (Al Mutlaa) Hospital, in the presence of the director in charge of the agency’s management, Mohamed Salem Echarkaoui, several religious dignitaries, eminent personalities from Al-Quds, and representatives of social institutions.
The Rabat-based Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency specified, in a statement, that this operation is part of the King’s constant solicitude and steady support to the city of Al-Quds and its population, through the role played by the agency, under the direct supervision of the Sovereign for more than a quarter of a century, to contribute to the improvement of the socio-economic situation of the inhabitants of Al-Quds and to support the city’s institutions.
Under this humanitarian assistance, 2,000 food baskets are distributed to 2,000 needy families. The baskets include 22 basic products, some of which are destined to children and others to people following specific diets.
Besides, the agency serves 1,000 meals daily, which helps meet a large part of the beneficiaries’ food needs in this blessed month, especially those registered on the lists of partner associations and those admitted to hospitals or residing in shelters.
The agency has taken into consideration, in managing the food aid distribution operation, several special regulations as well as a well-defined schedule that considers the situation in Al-Quds, in strict compliance with the sanitary safety conditions of the products.
The beneficiaries of food baskets and meals are distributed in various neighborhoods of Al-Quds, such as al-Balda al-Qadima, Silwan , Sheikh Jarrah, the Shu’fat camp, ath-Thori, Al-Isawiya, the Qalandia camp, and Al-Ram.
The humanitarian operation launched by King Mohammed VI, and conveyed via a land route, to alleviate the sufferings of Palestinians in Gaza and Al Quds, reeling under inhuman Israeli siege, was hailed as unprecedented worldwide by influential law-makers, experts and officials from Palestine, Europe, Africa, the Arab world, Latin America, and the United States.
