{"id":586406,"date":"2026-08-16T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/586406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:08:12","slug":"photos-egyptian-red-crescent-sends-3679-ton-aid-convoy-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/586406\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Egyptian Red Crescent sends 3,679-ton aid convoy to Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/202608161259305930.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"The Egyptian Red Crescent launches its 257th \u201cZad Al-Ezzah: From Egypt to Gaza\u201d aid convoy, 16 August 2026. ERC\" title=\"The Egyptian Red Crescent launches its 257th \u201cZad Al-Ezzah: From Egypt to Gaza\u201d aid convoy, 16 August 2026. ERC\" onerror=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"CaptionImg\">The Egyptian Red Crescent launches its 257th \u201cZad Al-Ezzah: From Egypt to Gaza\u201d aid convoy, 16 August 2026. ERC<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tCAIRO \u2013 16 August 2026: The Egyptian Red Crescent launched its 257th \u201cZad Al-Ezzah: From Egypt to Gaza\u201d aid convoy early Sunday, carrying thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe convoy, comprising a number of trucks, is part of the Egyptian Red Crescent\u2019s role as Egypt\u2019s national mechanism for coordinating humanitarian assistance to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"257th Zad Al-Ezzah From Egypt to Gaza aid convoy dispatched to Gaza 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/siteimages\/ArticleImgs\/2026\/8\/16\/156006-257th-Zad-Al-Ezzah-From-Egypt-to-Gaza-aid-convoy-dispatched-to-Gaza-2.jfif\" title=\"257th Zad Al-Ezzah From Egypt to Gaza aid convoy dispatched to Gaza 2\"\/><br \/>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe latest convoy is carrying more than 3,679 tons of aid, including over 1,322 tons of food baskets and flour, around 428 tons of relief supplies, medical equipment and medicines, and more than 1,929 tons of fuel and petroleum products needed to operate hospitals and other vital facilities in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Egyptian Red Crescent has maintained a presence along the border since the beginning of the crisis, keeping its logistics centers on standby and continuing efforts to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian and relief assistance to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe organization said the total volume of aid delivered has exceeded 1 million tons, supported by the efforts of more than 75,000 volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"257th Zad Al-Ezzah From Egypt to Gaza aid convoy dispatched to Gaza 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/siteimages\/ArticleImgs\/2026\/8\/16\/118700-257th-Zad-Al-Ezzah-From-Egypt-to-Gaza-aid-convoy-dispatched-to-Gaza-3.jfif\" title=\"257th Zad Al-Ezzah From Egypt to Gaza aid convoy dispatched to Gaza 3\"\/><br \/>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Egyptian Red Crescent launches its 257th \u201cZad Al-Ezzah: From Egypt to Gaza\u201d aid convoy, 16 August 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[265329,5543,265330,9150,42,43,40,38,41,39,265331],"class_list":["post-586406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aid-convoy","tag-egypt","tag-egyptian-red-crescent","tag-gaza-aid","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-zad-al-ezzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}