Days after PM Narendra Modi spoke to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, India sent humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, which has been pounded by Israeli military strikes. An IAF C-17 flight carrying 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material for the people of Palestine arrived in Egypt, the government said, adding the Indian ambassador in Cairo handed over the relief material to Egyptian Red Crescent for onward transmission to Palestine. Israel has allowed limited relief items to be supplied to Gaza through the Egypt-Rafah crossing. ‘The material includes essential life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities, water purification tablets among others,’ the MEA spokesperson said.