Village in Egypt's Nile Delta goes viral for organizing relief aid convoy for Gaza

Zeinab El-Gundy , Tuesday 21 Jan 2025

Jouger, in the heart of the Nile Delta, became Egypt’s top trending village this week as its locals could organize an eight-truck relief aid convoy for Gaza in 48 hours, following the announcement of a ceasefire agreement that halts Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian strip.

Jouger's Gaza relief aid in 2024
A file photo of Jouger's Gaza relief aid convoy that was organized in January 2024 in cooperation with Al-Azhar's Egyptian Zakat and Charity House. Photo : Egyptian Zakat and Charity House

 

Videos and photos from the small village went viral on TikTok, showing a large number of residents from Jouger village, in the city of Talkha in Dakahlia Governorate, gathered to celebrate the Gaza ceasefire by mobilizing aid to send it there with the support of Egyptian authorities.

 

 

The villagers donated substantial amounts of supplies, including lentils, rice, flour, blankets, mattresses, salt, sugar, pasta, and a wide range of medicines. 

These donations were loaded into eight large trucks and transported to the Rafah border crossing with the help of Al-Azhar Egyptian Zakat and Charity House. 

This was not the first time the village organized a relief aid convoy to Gaza.

Since October 2023, the villagers themselves have organized nearly 50 aid trucks to support Gaza with the help of Egyptian Zakat and Charity House.

In a post on Platform X, Tom Fletcher, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, stated that over 630 trucks entered Gaza on Sunday, with at least 300 carrying humanitarian assistance to the northern region.

On Monday, the second day of the ceasefire deal, approximately 310 humanitarian aid trucks and 13 fuel trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Al-Auja and Karm Abu Salem border crossings, according to Al-Qahera News TV channel.

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