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Food, hygiene products, heating equipment and medicines weighing 15 tons are expected to be shipped weekly from Israel to Europe soon.
Assistance to Jewish communities and refugees will be sent on planes carrying new immigrants to Israel.
The initiative of the Friendship Foundation, the JDC and the Let Association began last weekend.
The first plane, carrying tons of dry food, winter supplies, medicine and hygiene products, made its way to Moldova and from there to Ukraine, to help communities during the war.
Last Thursday, the plane, which had landed a few hours earlier in Moldova, left for the combat zones.
During the flight of the Friendship Foundation in cooperation with the Jewish Agency, the critical baggage was transferred.
The organizations noted that the purpose of the deportation was to help Jews fleeing the horrors of war and to convey a message of mutual guarantee and caring.
"We are looking with pain at the suffering in Ukraine," noted the president of the Friendship Foundation, Yael Eckstein.
The purchase of food and equipment, along with the collection of donations and the preparation of shipments, will be done by the Let Association, which has experience in emergency assistance in natural disasters and wars.
The fund will fund the flight, and will co-finance the humanitarian equipment together with the JDC, which works in Ukraine to provide a response on the ground to the Jewish communities, and will also take care of transferring the equipment to its destination.
"Do not know what will happen": "Israel Today" emissary with refugees on the Ukraine-Poland border // Photo: Avi Cohen
Stephen Oscar, director of joint operations in the former Soviet Union, noted that "the war is flooding humanitarian needs, which our crews are taking care of on the ground, under fire."
"It is impossible to stand back and remain indifferent in the face of the human suffering of hundreds of thousands of refugees," said Eran Weintraub, executive director of Let.
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