Brazilian Air Power flight from Lebanon lands in São Paulo
The plane was to take off again to Beirut with a brand new crew to carry donations and airlift again the second batch of evacuees
A Brazilian Air Power (FAB) plane landed on the São Paulo Air Base in Guarulhos at 10.25 am on Sunday carrying 229 Brazilian nationals who had been evacuated from war-torn Lebanon, along with 3 pets, Agencia Brasil reported.
The KC-30 plane (the army denomination for an Airbus A-330) was to return straight to choose up the second batch. FAB Chief Marcelo Kanitz Damasceno stated the purpose of Operation Cedar Roots was to repatriate round 500 Brazilians per week. The brand new mission is due again in Brazil on Tuesday morning.
Brazil is a beneficiant nation and has no disputes with any nation on this planet as a result of we do not need conflict. Conflict solely destroys. What builds is peace, stated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva upon welcoming the evacuees.
The plane left Lebanon on Saturday at 1:18 pm (Brasília time) and made a cease in Portugal to refuel. It then took off once more at 11:56 p.m. from Lisbon on its technique to South America.
Of the some 20,000 Brazilians believed to be residing in Lebanon, round 3,000 of them have approached diplomatic authorities to ask for assist because the army operations by the Israeli Armed Forces intensified. In Lula’s view, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to remain in energy by launching these army offensives in opposition to Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
that we had a really laborious stance in opposition to Hamas invading Israel, however we even have a really laborious stance in opposition to the Israeli authorities killing kids and girls, with none respect for human life. Now, [the war] is a approach that President Netanyahu has discovered to remain in energy, which is to take revenge on the Palestinians, and now on Beirut.
For Lula, Tel Aviv was not taking into consideration the necessity to forestall the folks [in Beirut] from being the victims. He added: As a result of, usually, the sufferer just isn’t the one waging the conflict, it is the harmless individuals who don’t desire conflict; the victims are our ladies, our kids, as a result of we do not simply lose our lives, we lose colleges, hospitals, a complete collection of issues that will carry tranquillity.
The Brazilian president insisted he would do every thing potential to carry all Brazilians, or Lebanese who’ve Brazilian kin, to Brazil. So long as there’s a companion, be it Brazilian or a relative of a Brazilian there in Lebanon, we are going to search for them as a result of we do not go away anybody behind. We’ll attempt to carry everybody who needs to come back. Might God bless you all! Might you rebuild your lives right here and discover in Brazil the happiness that was taken from you in Lebanon, he added whereas highlighting the Arab tradition’s significance for Brazil.
that there are round 8 million, 9 million Arabs right here. There are in all probability extra Lebanese residing in Brazil than in Lebanon itself, Lula underlined. The president recalled that the Lebanese helped construct São Paulo and have a number of accountability for what we’re.
On this state of affairs, the Brazilian authorities introduced it could be donating 20,000 syringes with needles and 4,000 particular person needles to Lebanon on the flight heading again to Beirut. The donation is in response to a request made by the Lebanese Embassy in Brasilia on Sept. 23.
In 2023, Brazil made humanitarian donations of medicines, immunizers, and well being provides to a number of nations, together with Bolivia, Cape Verde, Cuba, Libya, Haiti, Palestine, Suriname, and Turkey. In 2024, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Paraguay, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Uruguay additionally obtained Brazilian well being donations.
