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Indonesia to start construction of Women and Children’s Hospital in Gaza next month
More than 30 organizations are ready to support the Rp 402 billion (US$24.6 million) project, said Foreign Ministry officials and Palestinian civil society groups.
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People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street in Nuseirat towards the Netzarim corridor to cross to the northern part of the Gaza Strip on January 27, 2025. Displaced Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on January 27, an official at the territory's Hamas-run Interior Ministry told AFP, after a breakthrough in negotiations between Hamas and Israel. (AFP/Bashar Taleb)
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he groundbreaking of the Indonesian Women and Children’s Hospital in the Gaza Strip is scheduled to take place sometime next month, Foreign Ministry officials and Palestinian civil society groups announced in a press conference in Jakarta on Friday.
More than 30 organizations are ready to support the Rp 402 billion (US$24.6 million) project, they said.
The four-storey hospital building, which is part of the Indonesian National Campaign for Palestine launched by Deputy Foreign Minister Anis Matta last month, will be built on a 5,000-square-meter plot of land held in a waqf in the Nasser neighborhood of Gaza following an agreement with the Palestinian Health Ministry in April of last year.
“The development of the Indonesian Women and Children’s Hospital in Gaza is not just a health infrastructure project but a manifestation of sincere Indonesian solidarity with Palestine,” said Onny Firyanti Hamidi, the head of philanthropic group Maemuna Center Indonesia.
Maemuna Center, together with the Aqsa Working Group, initiated the project early last year amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, which destroyed much of the enclave’s health infrastructure.
Data from the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) indicate that women and children have made up nearly 70 percent of Gaza’s dead since Oct. 7, 2023, when a deadly raid on Israel by Palestinian armed group Hamas was answered with a massive military reprisal by Tel Aviv. Over 1,100 Israelis and 62,600 Gazans have died since the attack.
