Umran Ali Javaid, a master’s student at Glasgow’s Caledonian university, is driving an ambulance to Gaza, in an effort to assist humanitarian relief efforts in the besieged enclave.
The student set out in recent weeks to make his way to the embattled Gaza Strip after buying a second-hand ambulance in January, aiming to deliver the ambulance to UNRWA to save Gazan civilians. He had recently received an approval from authorities in ‘Israel’ and Egypt to reach Gaza.
Starting from Glasgow, Javaid’s plan was to catch a ferry from Dover to France, then travel across Europe into Turkiye, from where he will catch a ship to Egypt’s Al Arish port before driving to the Rafah border at the south of Gaza.
“I went through the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Switzerland. The ambulance will hopefully be in Gaza after a few days’ time once I board a ship to Egypt and drive to the Rafah border”, Javaid told Middle East Monitor on Friday.
At Rafah, the ambulance “will be handed over and donated to the UN agency UNRWA to help save innocent civilians and those that are injured,” he added.
Javaid stated that “During war innocent civilians, especially children, need help and the ambulance can transport those that are injured and infants as it is equipped with a neo-natal ventilator.”
Javaid’s has reportedly delivered 40 other second-hand ambulances to conflict areas in previous years, including Syria, Burma, Iraq, Yemen, and most recently Ukraine back in September, and Gaza.
Since October 7, more than 33173 people were killed in Gaza, most of them are children and women, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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