Al-Markazul Islami, a Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation, has taken an initiative to bring injured Palestinians to Bangladesh for free treatment and skills development training.
The NGO is initially planning to bring about 5,000 Palestinians injured in Israeli military offensives to give them medical treatment and skills training. The organisation wants to bring in 1,000 injured Palestinians soon after its facilities are ready for treating them, said its chairman Hamza Shahidul Islam.
The NGO chairman told 抖阴精品 on Tuesday that they would offer them treatment under 13 categories, mostly related to trauma, in around 40 hospitals in Dhaka and nearby cities.
Shahidul also said that he approached the health and home ministries to receive positive responses in this regard. 聽
He was now seeking a schedule to meet the interim government chief adviser to present their project plan for approval, said Shahidul.
Diplomatic assistance, visa approval, security assurance and many other arrangements would be required to bring the injured Palestinians, he mentioned, calling for the government鈥檚 support.
He also stated that a special legal arrangement from the government would also be required for handling the flow of a huge amount of donations from abroad to facilitate the service.
鈥榃e want to take lease of a piece of government land to set up a 鈥淗umanitarian village鈥� for rehabilitation of the injured Palestinians,鈥� said Shahidul, adding that the initiative would not only offer treatment but also would offer them skills development training.
He mentioned that the government would decide from where the injured Palestinians would be collected to bring to Bangladesh. 聽
鈥榃e are initially planning to bring the injured people from Gaza. The other option is to bring the injured from different refugee camps in Jordan, Egypt and other nearby countries,鈥� said Shahidul.
Regarding the return of the injured Palestinians, Shahidul said that each of them would be brought with full documentation and be returned to the place from where they would be brought.
About the fundraising, he said that so far they had not gone for any public fundraising calls, but were discussing different potential donors and received huge response.
Also from their domestic donors they had raised Tk 20鈥�30 lakh for the purpose, but suspended the fundraising effort until they received government approval for the project, said the non-profit鈥檚 chairman.
鈥楢t the moment, we have enough promises for donations for the purpose of medical treatment for 1,000 injured Palestinians,鈥� he said.
鈥榃e are planning to widen the project and 12 more organisations and NGOs have joined us recently in this initiative. We will implement the project under a common banner 鈥淏angladesh All Humanitarian NGOs鈥�,鈥� said Shahidul.
In the recent days, different political parties, social organisations and Islamic scholars in Bangladesh have been staging massive solidarity protests across the country, demanding an end to the Israeli invasion and bombardment perpetrating massacres in Gaza.
