Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah before yesterday witnessed preparations for Malaysia’s third delivery of Ops Ihsan humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) cargo terminal here.
His Majesty, who was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, spent about an hour inspecting the items kept at the terminal’s warehouse and those loaded onto the specially chartered cargo aircraft.
According to a Wisma Putra statement, the delivery this time involved 60 tonnes of items, comprising 35.57 tonnes of medical goods, 6.62 tonnes of ready-to-eat food items, 4.35 tonnes of baby items and 13.46 tonnes of items for winter use, such as mattresses and blankets.
With this third delivery, Malaysia has sent 100 tonnes of items as humanitarian aid, after the first and second deliveries each involving goods weighing 20 tonnes.
