21 June 2017•Update: 21 June 2017
By Eshat Firat
JERUSALEM
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) is providing food aid to hundreds of needy families in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
“We distributed food packages in the West Bank cities of Al-Khalil [Hebron] and Ramallah,” Bulent Korkmaz, TIKA’s coordinator for Palestine, told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.
“And today we will complete our aid program in [East] Jerusalem,” he added.
According to Korkmaz, the distribution of food aid in East Jerusalem was overseen by Jerusalem’s Al-Zakah Committee.
The latest aid deliveries come within the context of TIKA’s ongoing food aid program, which was first launched some 10 years ago.
