.- The United States is sending two military planes loaded with humanitarian aid to Tunisia and then assist in the transfer of Egyptian refugees from Libya, said the Pentagon. Speaking to reporters, a Pentagon spokesman, Col. Corps U.S. Navy Dave Lapan, said two C-130 aircraft from Ramstein Air Base in Germany will leave at the Tunisian town of Djerba with humanitarian aid shipments .
The shipments include four thousand blankets, 40 rolls of plastic sheeting, and about nine thousand 600 bottles of 10 liters of water each, Lapan said. The two planes made an initial stop in Italy to collect humanitarian supplies from a warehouse of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Lapan said.
The spokesman added that the two military aircraft will return to Tunisia to assist in the transfer of Egyptians who fled from Libya back to their country. Humanitarian flights were arranged in the framework of "Operation Alba's Odyssey" ("Operation Dawn Odyssey"), to help those fleeing recent violence in Libya.
Humanitarian efforts are supported by several member countries of NATO and other international organizations, the spokesman said. On Thursday, U.S. President, Barack Obama, announced that it has authorized the use of military and civilian aircraft of the United States for shipment to their country of foreign nationals who have fled to Libya.
He also gave orders for the deployment of humanitarian assistance to the Libyan border, to the flight of "tens of thousands of people" in a country where the government continues to use violence to suppress the rebellion that exists in that country. 
The shipments include four thousand blankets, 40 rolls of plastic sheeting, and about nine thousand 600 bottles of 10 liters of water each, Lapan said. The two planes made an initial stop in Italy to collect humanitarian supplies from a warehouse of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Lapan said.
The spokesman added that the two military aircraft will return to Tunisia to assist in the transfer of Egyptians who fled from Libya back to their country. Humanitarian flights were arranged in the framework of "Operation Alba's Odyssey" ("Operation Dawn Odyssey"), to help those fleeing recent violence in Libya.
Humanitarian efforts are supported by several member countries of NATO and other international organizations, the spokesman said. On Thursday, U.S. President, Barack Obama, announced that it has authorized the use of military and civilian aircraft of the United States for shipment to their country of foreign nationals who have fled to Libya.
He also gave orders for the deployment of humanitarian assistance to the Libyan border, to the flight of "tens of thousands of people" in a country where the government continues to use violence to suppress the rebellion that exists in that country.
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