BEIRUT, Nov 8 (KUNA) -- The Kuwaiti charity Tanmiya launched on Friday a campaign through partners in Lebanon to aid the displaced and people affected with the Israeli aggression.
Mohammad Fawaz, the director of developing resources at Rakaz association, told KUNA that Tanmiya launched the campaign in coordination with local counterparts namely Razak to deliver aid at the displaced shelters, with concentration on segments in dire need for help.
Up to 100,000 people have benefited from the campaign in the first phase, he said, indicating that the activity included distribution of food parcels, blankets, bread, water and medicines. Moreover, rents of housing for some of the displaced have been paid.
Some 1.5 million Lebanese have been relocated since Israel stepped up the aggression on the country in September. Many of them have settled in shelters and others in houses of relatives and friends.
Kuwait has already sent in two planeloads of relief supplies, via Beirut airport, that was hit in an Israeli air strike on adjacent locations two days ago. Shrapnel inflicted damage at the terminal and tarmac but authorities insisted that operations would proceed as regular.
Kuwait had aided Lebanon on many tragic occasions in the past, including several Israeli aggression and the fiery Beirut port blast that had inflicted damage and destruction in earby residential districts. (end) fz.rk