1. The
aircraft, an MD82, will carry out three daily rotations between Djerba
and Cairo, intending to carry 4,000 displaced persons over a week.
2. Even
though the aircraft's main objective is evacuation, in its first flight
from Madrid it will also carry 5 tons of humanitarian material.
3. Apart
from this dispatch, Spain has already sent 30.5 tons of shelter material
for displaced persons, and a further € 800,000 have been earmarked for
this emergency, of which € 500,000 euros for the UN High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) and € 300,000 for the International Committee of
