KONYA, Turkey
Around 2,000 food packages will be delivered to the families of Palestinians who have been killed or injured by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza over the past four days, head of IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation's Konya Office, Ihsan Erdim, told Anadolu Agency Friday.
"The aid, which will be sent over the weekend, will help show Palestinians that we are with them," Erdim said, adding that they would organize campaigns and meetings in order to draw attention to the situation in Gaza.
Another Turkish charity, Deniz Feneri Association, has also announced that they will deliver food packages worth $15,000 to 300 families in Gaza.
"This is just the first batch. The packages will be delivered to families on Sunday through an affiliate charity in Gaza," President Mehmet Cengiz said in a statement Friday. Cengiz added that further aids would be provided over the coming days.
Israeli warplanes have pounded the Gaza Strip over the past four days as part of a military offensive – dubbed "Operation Protective Edge" – with the stated aim of ending rocket fire from the embattled coastal enclave.
At least 98 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured in unrelenting Israeli attacks in the seaside enclave since Monday.
Gaza-based resistance factions, meanwhile, have continued to fire short-range rockets into Israel – without causing any fatalities – in response to the unrelenting airstrikes.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry claimed Thursday that at least 681 rockets had been fired at Israel from Gaza since June 7.
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