The late Pope Francis donated one of his popemovies to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve Gaza children, charity officials said.
The Jerusalem and Swedish branches of the Vatican Caritas Charitable Federation released photos of the reused vehicles on Monday.
There was no word on when the vehicle would be used.
The donation was announced on the same day Israel approved a plan to seize the entire Gaza Strip and stay on Palestinian territory for an unspecified period of time.
“When the humanitarian corridor to Gaza reopens, it (Popemovir) is ready to provide primary care to children in Gaza,” Caritas Jerusalem said in a statement.
The vehicle will be equipped with diagnostic, testing and treatment equipment.
Caritas said it has a test device, a suture kit, syringes and needles, oxygen supply, a vaccine and a refrigerator.
“The vehicle represents the love, care and intimacy he has shown by his holiness towards the most vulnerable people he was in crisis,” Anton Asfar’s executive director general of Caritas Jerusalem said in a statement.
During the Israeli war in Gaza, Pope Francis became increasingly outspoken with criticism of the IDF’s harsh tactics, demanding the return of hostages that Hamas had taken on October 7, 2023.
Last year he urged an investigation into whether Israeli war on Israeli enclaves, accusations that Israel has vehemently denied, amounted to genocide.
He repeatedly spoke about the light-forms of the people of Gaza and had the evening ritual he had maintained while he was in hospital with pneumonia in February.
Pope Francis passed away on April 21st at the age of 88.
