"We appreciate the continued support of the Government of India and its people for the Palestinian masses and the timely supply of desperately needed life saving medicines, particularly in view of the deteriorating situation in Gaza", Rafiq Husseini, the chief of President Mahmoud Abbas' cabinet, said.
"The donation is another example of India's principled stand for the just cause of the Palestinian people and its concerns over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories", Husseini added.
The Representative of India in PA, Zikrur Rahman, handed over the second consignment of medical supplies to Husseini on Thursday evening, fulfilling New Delhi's promised humanitarian aid of $2.23 million in life saving medicines.
The first consignment was delivered to the PA in August. "The medical aid is an expression of solidarity from the government and people of India towards the friendly Palestinian people", Rahman said at a ceremony organised to hand over the supplies.
Describing the humanitarian situation in Gaza, UN human rights envoy John Dugard on Tuesday said that life there is "intolerable, appalling and tragic".
Recent surveys and World Health Organisation statistics have projected a very grave situation in the Strip where hospitals have been constantly seeking medical supplies, unable to attend majority of the patients.
"Life saving drugs are especially in short supply and such a help will certainly come as a big relief", a spokesman for the PA health ministry told PTI in response to India's initiative. India had send the first consignment of life saving drugs to PA on August 10.
The second consignment consists of drugs to treat cancer, cardiac problems, shock and depression, parkinsons, skin, bone and internal infections besies medicines for kidney failure.
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