Converting the vehicle to a mobile health clinic was one of the pontiff’s last wishes before he died.
Pope Francis bequeathed one of his popemobiles to the Gaza Strip, to be repurposed to a mobile health clinic for children, Vatican media reported on Sunday.
The popemobile, which was used by the pontiff during his visit to the Palestinian Authority territories in Judea and Samaria in 2014, will carry vaccines, suture kits, rapid tests for infections and other life-saving supplies, the Vatican News reported.
The head of the Catholic Church made it one of his last wishes in the months before he died, the report added.
Anton Asfar, secretary-general of Caritas Jerusalem, said, “This vehicle represents the love, care and closeness shown by His Holiness for the most vulnerable, which he expressed throughout the crisis.”