UAE working to provide Starlink service at Emirati field hospital in Gaza

The UAE has announced that it is working in partnership with various international and regional organisations and hospitals to introduce SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband at its field hospital in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that this step further underscores the UAE’s unwavering efforts to stand in solidarity with the brotherly Palestinian people during the ongoing war. The Starlink internet service will be made available in the field hospital in the Strip, in order to enable potentially life-saving medical consultations via real-time video calling.

The Ministry highlighted the importance of reliable high-speed internet in ensuring quality medical care by hospitals serving Palestinians within the Gaza Strip.

In this regard, the UAE reaffirmed the importance of the immediate, safe, sustainable and unhindered delivery of relief and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

Negotiations to pause the Israel-Hamas war headed into a second day in Cairo on Wednesday, as Israel launched a series of deadly strikes on Lebanon, stoking fears of a wider conflict.

Mediators in Egypt were hoping to secure a ceasefire that would see more hostages released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, as Israel prepares for a full-scale ground incursion into the Gaza Strip's crowded far-southern city of Rafah.

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