Israeli planes carrying humanitarian aid, equipment for a field hospital and medical staff arrived in Macedonia and Albania on Tuesday to provide support for refugees streaming out of Kosovo. The field hospital was to be set up in Macedonia several miles from Kosovo, where British and Canadian aid delegations were already working. Officials from the Jewish Agency for Israel flew to Albania to oversee the distribution of aid there.
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