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"Volunteers gathered at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip to restore the complex’s facilities as part of the UAE's Operation 'Chivalrous Knight 3'. Footage filmed on Sunday shows volunteers planting olive trees in the complex’s courtyard, clearing rubble and debris and installing sunshades for waiting areas. A number of officials and representatives from the organisations participating in the campaign are also seen. "This initiative carries several messages, the most important of which is to emphasise that the Gaza Strip, its people, and the Palestinian people within it, are committed to their land and steadfast in it", Mohammed Abu Salmiya, Director of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, said. "There was a mass grave from which more than 500 bodies were recovered. The trees will bear witness to the reconstruction," he added. Mohammed Abu Rabi, Deputy Director of the 'Chivalrous Knight 3' Operation, emphasised that 'the initiative' implemented in cooperation with the administration of Al-Shifa Hospital, the Ministry of Health, and the Municipality of Gaza, carries a humanitarian message that underscores the Palestinians' adherence to their land and their determination to continue reconstruction and restore life to vital facilities in the Strip. "We have come to restore hope and breathe new life into it by planting trees and clearing rubble, because we love this land and are committed to it, we want to stay here and live here," said Amira Atallah, a volunteer. The UAE launched Operation 'Chivalrous Knight 3' on 5 November 2023, on the orders of the Emirati President, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to provide relief to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, following the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas on 7 October 2023. The war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7 2023 following attacks carried out by Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of 1,139 people, most of them Israeli civilians, and the capture of more than 200 others. In response, the Israeli army launched a large-scale military campaign in the Gaza Strip, including air strikes and a ground incursion, which killed 72,737 Palestinians and injured 172,539 others. Last January, the US envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkov, announced the launch of the second phase of Trump’s 20-point plan to end the conflict in Gaza, which includes a transition from a ceasefire to disarmament, the formation of a technocratic administration, and the start of reconstruction."
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