The Kingdom of Jordan will host today, Tuesday, an international conference for the emergency humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, in which the war has entered its ninth month.
The conference is held jointly by the United Nations, Jordan and Egypt and at the invitation of Jordanian King Abdullah II, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
The conference, which is being held at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center on the Dead Sea shore, will be attended by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin, who is touring the region to promote a ceasefire in Gaza, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths, leaders of state, heads of government and heads of international humanitarian and relief organizations with the aim of “determining ways to strengthen the international community’s response to the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip,” according to the statement of the Royal Court of Jordan.
According to the conference program, the conference begins at 10:30 a.m. {Jordan time, Iraq time} through working group sessions, where Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi will speak, then Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri will deliver a speech, then the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths.
The working group sessions begin at 10:45 a.m., as the first group, provides humanitarian assistance to Gaza to meet the size of needs, the second exceeded the challenges facing the distribution of humanitarian aid and the protection of civilians in Gaza, and the third, the priorities of early recovery in Gaza.
Before the start of the main session, the participating delegations will be received.
At 1:30 p.m., the main session begins with the speech of His Majesty the King, the speech of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the speech of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, and the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
After the keynote addresses, a summary of the results of the working groups will be presented by the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths.
The main session is complemented by the words of the Heads of State and Government participating in the Conference.
The main sessions will conclude at 6 pm, and a joint press conference will be held at 6:15 pm with the participation of the Foreign Ministers of Jordan and Egypt.
The Israeli military continues its war on Gaza for the 249th consecutive day, which caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster that displaced more than 85 percent of the Gaza Strip’s population by 1.9 million people.
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