Iraq to Send Medical Brigades to Palestine

The Iraqi Health Ministry announced on Thursday that it prepared medical bridges to send them to Palestine, stressing readiness to receive the wounded civilians.

The ministry's spokesman Sayf al-Badr told media reports that "Iraq stood by all its brotherly countries in terrible crisis before. We have previously sent medical aid to Palestine and other countries."

"All health institutions are completely ready to receive any number of wounded Palestinians," Al-Badr reaffirmed.

He also stressed that the ministry is fully prepared to provide medical services to Palestine and any other county.

In the wake of serious escalation and aggression in Gaza, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi asserted that he refuses to violate the historical right to the land of Palestine, according to Iraqi News Agency (INA).

His media office said: "The prime minister made a phone call to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas."

In the call, Al-Kadhimi stressed that his country "maintains its supportive and decisive historical position towards the brotherly Palestinian people, and condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli attacks on our people in Palestine, whether in Jerusalem or in the Gaza Strip."

Moreover, the prime minister reiterated that he completely "rejects the prejudice to the historical right to the land of Palestine, without which generations of Militants, martyrs and resistance fighters.”