2023-11-12 16:54:00
Several dozen people with foreign passports and some wounded Palestinians were evacuated on Sunday from the Gaza Strip, bombed by Israel, to Egypt, according to reports on both sides of the border.
“Fifty citizens with dual nationality arrived in Rafah,” in Egypt, along with “seven wounded Palestinians,” reported the AlQahera News network, close to the Egyptian intelligence services.
The border authority of the Hamas government, which controls the Gaza Strip, had requested on Saturday night that “all foreign passport holders and people on evacuation lists” report to the terminal located in the far south. of the Palestinian territory.
Since November 1, dozens of wounded Palestinians were evacuated to Egyptian hospitals, and hundreds of people with dual nationality or foreigners, including Americans, Russians, French or Germans, also crossed the Rafah crossing.
However, the terminal could not open every day, often due to disagreements over which injured should be evacuated.
Among those who left Gaza on Sunday are people with Polish, Romanian and Russian passports.
The war between Israel and Hamas was triggered by the bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil on October 7, which left some 1,200 dead, according to authorities.
In retaliation, Israel vowed to “annihilate” Hamas, relentlessly bombing the besieged territory where 2.4 million Palestinians live.
More than 11,000 people died in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest balance sheet from the Hamas Ministry of Health, which has not updated the casualty figures for two days, citing the collapse of hospital services.
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