UAE Completes Humaid Air Bridge Mission Delivering Critical Aid to Gaza

The United Arab Emirates has wrapped up the humanitarian programme “Humaid Air Bridge” and delivered over 600 tonnes of relief aid to Gaza in the “Operation Chivalrous Knight 3”, a charity campaign that came off successfully.

The initiative aligns with the UAE’s persistent shift towards a quick humanitarian response to aid people’s lives impacted by the crisis. Using joint operations in the air, teams of relief workers delivered food and humanitarian aid to be distributed to solve the immediate needs within the Gaza Strip.

Large-Scale Humanitarian Coordination

The campaign “Humaid Air Bridge” was implemented in cooperation with relief centres in the region and humanitarian organizations and their logistics staff. The flights were conducted by aid organisations flying through designated humanitarian corridors to deliver food parcels and emergency materials to impacted communities in the best possible way.

The operation is part of the UAE’s humanitarian strategy to Gaza, which integrates air, land and maritime delivery mechanisms, thus ensuring uninterrupted supply of humanitarian aid despite difficult on-the-ground circumstances.

Part of Operation Chivalrous Knight 3

The air bridge continues to be a part of Operation Chivalrous Knight 3, the UAE’s greater humanitarian initiative aimed at assisting civilians affected by the conflict. In addition to food assistance, it covers medical support programs, field health care, water supplies and evacuation of injured civilians for treatment.

The UAE has also sent sophisticated medical infrastructure with its field hospital and a floating hospital in the vicinity of Gaza to increase the capacity for emergency medical care for those impacted by the crisis.

Expanding the UAE’s Humanitarian Response Model

Burden sharing of the Humanitarian Response Model in the UAE is scaling up UAE’s Humanitarian Response Model.

The uniqueness of the Humaid Air Bridge operation is the focus on speed, logistics and continuous distribution, instead of providing a single helping hand. The UAE’s strategy has been placing greater emphasis on developing an integrated humanitarian response system, to enable simultaneous release of humanitarian assistance, medical services, and operational coordination.

This type of crisis is typical of how humanitarian assistance is delivered during the crises of today and highlights the importance of having the means to deploy response rapidly, and consistently, to support affected people.

Humanitarian Commitment Amid Regional Challenges

With its successful completion, the Humaid Air Bridge campaign is arriving at a time when humanitarian needs are continuing to increase in the region. The UAE has established itself as an active humanitarian responder and has worked hard to ensure humanitarian aid doesn’t pass through just one channel, but is delivered where it can be most useful and productive when the situation is unstable.The UAE has also expanded its humanitarian operations as part of ongoing commitment, focusing on humanitarian relief through delivery of food, healthcare assistance, and crisis management coordination under its Operation Chivalrous Knight 3

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