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Iraq to send more aid
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IRAQ will send another batch of food and medicine aid to Palestine to support its intifada (uprising) against Israel, Iraqi Health Minister Umid Medhat Mubarak said in Baghdad on Wednesday.
In a statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency (INA), Mubarak said that it is the belief of the Iraqi Government that the Palestinian intifada should be supported even if Iraq is under sanctions.
Iraq has been under stringent United Nations sanctions ever since it invaded neighbouring Kuwait in 1990.
Mubarak said that the aid supplies should not be included in the one billion euro (US$880 million) aid Iraq had proposed to help Palestine.
Iraq asked the United Nations last December to allocate one billion euro from its oil revenue for Palestine to support Palestine's struggle against Israel, but the world's leading body has not yet made a formal response.
Iraq has sent at least three batches of food and medicine to the Palestinian self-rule areas via Jordan, and has sent three medical teams to Jordan to help treat the Palestinians wounded in the conflicts with the Israeli forces.
Iraq considers it as a national duty to support the ongoing Palestinian Intifada against Israel, Abdul Ghani Abdul Ghafur, member of Iraq's regional command of the Arab Baath Socialist Party, said on Wednesday. (SD-Agencies)
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