KARACHI: Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF), a leading Pakistani charity, has launched a Rs15 billion ($52.8 million) project to help rebuild infrastructure devastated by Israel’s two-year war on Gaza, the charity announced Sunday.
The development came days after US President Donald Trump helped reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas at a Sharm El-Sheikh summit, under which Hamas released 20 Israeli hostages and Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose country has sent several aid consignments for Gaza, was among leaders from eight Muslim-majority nations who met Trump in New York to discuss the situation in Gaza before the peace plan was formally unveiled in Egypt.
On Sunday, the AKH, which has been worked extensively in Pakistan to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, said it will help rebuild critical infrastructure to provide drinking water, food, winter relief, and health and education facilities to Gazans on short- and long-term bases.
“Al-Khidmat has always responded to human suffering beyond borders,” it said in a statement, urging philanthropists, donor agencies and the public at large to play their part in restoring hope and dignity for the people of Gaza.
