Overview
- Volunteers filled food boxes at Expo City Dubai under the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives as part of Operation Gallant Knight 3.
- Organisers reported rapid throughput, with about 1,700 volunteers packing 3.5 million meals in three hours and many more joining throughout the day.
- Event sign-ups surged after Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid’s call, with more than 20,000 registrations in a week despite an initial need for 2,000 volunteers.
- Aid will be shipped in the coming weeks, staged at Egypt’s Al Arish, then transported by lorry into Gaza, with delivery targeted around year-end to early January, according to officials.
- Each package contains staple items and is designed to provide roughly 70 meals, and officials framed the effort as part of wider UAE assistance including a field hospital in Gaza and a floating hospital in Al Arish.