The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) is ready to send humanitarian aid to the people in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s relentless attack against the coastal sliver, a senior Iranian lawmaker says.

Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee at Iran’s Majlis, said IRCS chief Mohammad Farhadi has expressed readiness to send relief aid to Gaza during a meeting with Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and the ambassadors of Islamic countries to Tehran, Press TV reported.



Boroujerdi added that during the meeting it was agreed that the Egyptian envoy to Tehran would coordinate the necessary measures to dispatch Iran's aid to the Gaza Strip via Egypt.

Earlier, Iranian Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi said that Iran is fully prepared to provide emergency equipment and medical supplies for the Gazans wounded in Israel’s fatal assaults.

Hospitals in Gaza are in desperate need of help, including medicines and equipment. Tel Aviv regime imposed an all-out land, aerial, and naval blockade on Gaza in June 2007. The siege has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the impoverished enclave.

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