ByTPS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Israel will send urgent humanitarian aid to South Sudan, responding to the country’s worsening crisis, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced while hosting South Sudanese Foreign Minister Semaya Kumba in Jerusalem on Monday.

The aid, coordinated by Mashav, Israel’s national aid agency, will include medical equipment, water purification systems, gloves, face masks, hygiene kits, and food packages to help combat a cholera outbreak and severe resource shortages.

Mashav will work alongside Israeli NGO IsraAID on the operation.

The humanitarian situation is further strained by refugees fleeing the conflict in neighboring Sudan.

“Israel stands by its friends in their difficult times,” Sa’ar said.

A worker prepares to release food aid from a cargo plane within Nasir town airspace, in an operation run by Fogbow, a US company organising the airdrops with funding from the South Sudanese government, in Nasir County of Upper Nile State, South Sudan June 10, 2025.
A worker prepares to release food aid from a cargo plane within Nasir town airspace, in an operation run by Fogbow, a US company organising the airdrops with funding from the South Sudanese government, in Nasir County of Upper Nile State, South Sudan June 10, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/THOMAS MUKOYA)

Recent Israeli contact with South Sudan

South Sudan’s Foreign Ministry denied a report in the Associated Press last week that said Israel was holding discussions with the country to resettle Palestinians in Gaza.

“These claims are baseless and do not reflect the official position or policy of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan,” the ministry said.