Iranian Deputy foreign minister Arab and African affairs Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said that Egypt’s delay to issue permission for shipment of Iranian aid to Gaza is not acceptable.

Iranian Deputy foreign minister Arab and African affairs Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said that Egypt’s delay to issue permission for shipment of Iranian aid to Gaza is not acceptable.

Abdollahian told IRNA on Wednesday that Cairo has not so far issued a license for an Iranian flight which is supposedly to hold humanitarian aid, weighing 100 tons.

He noted that Tehran has also handed the Egyptian foreign ministry and Egypt’s interest section in Tehran the list of wounded Palestinians, but no license for the flight has been issued so far.

The Iranian diplomat added that the first group of wounded Gazans who are in critical condition, including 57 children and women, wait the Iranian flight for their immediate transfer to Tehran hospitals.

He asked the concerned Cairo officials to accelerate issuing the license and hoped that Egypt will act on its humanitarian, historical, Islamic and Arab responsibility in the face of Zionist regime’s crimes in Gaza to open Rafah Border Crossing immediately for transfer of medicine and food to the Gazans.