Jeddah, 18.1.09 Al Aqsa Fund and the International Islamic Charity Organization (IICO) will sign today in Kuwait a Memorandum of Understanding on a joint US$ 5 million program for medical relief, rehabilitation and medication for the wounded and handicapped Palestinians in Gaza. The MoU will be signed by H.E Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali the President of IDB Group and H.E. Sheikh Yusuf Al-Hajji the president of IICO. Al Aqsa Fund, which was created by the Arab Extraordinary Summit in Egypt in 2000 and managed by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), and The IICO will cooperate with other partners to support this program which will also provide mobile hospitals and rehabilitation centers to treat war victims specially children and women. On this occasion, H.E. Sheikh Yusuf Al-Hajji called on all relief Institutions which will be engaged in Gaza relief operations to join this initiative to help face the challenges of the huge humanitarian needs arising from the subversive war on Gaza. He added that there are more than (700,000) children who are living under threat of continued bombardment and lethal weaponry used in the aggression on Gaza where the health institutions are incapable of treating the victims. The signing of the MoU between Al Aqsa Fund and the IICO is a part of Al Aqsa Fund's efforts for establishing a broad partnership with different institutions to support the Fund's humanitarian operations in Gaza. Recently, Al Aqsa Fund approved US$ (25) million to participate in emergency relief operations for Gaza. Consignments of more than US$(5) million involving medicines, food stuffs and medical equipments were dispatched to the Strip in cooperation between the Fund and Palestinian Ministry of Health.