The Rafah border, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, reopened this Wednesday to evacuate foreigners and seriously injured people. The agreement, according to Reuters, was reached with the help of Qatar.
According to France-Press, dozens of foreigners have already left the Gaza Strip.
Around 400 foreigners and dual nationals, along with around 90 sick and injured people, are expected to leave Gaza during the day.
According to foreign embassies, citizens of 44 countries and 28 foreign agencies, official organizations and non-governmental organizations are in the Gaza Strip.
In Rafah, on the Egyptian side, television channels close to the secret services showed live images of a line of ambulances entering the terminal, and 81 wounded Palestinians are expected to be transferred to Egyptian hospitals during the day, according to Egyptian officials and Palestinians.
In the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas since 2007, more than 8,500 people were killed and thousands were injured in Israeli bombings, carried out in retaliation for the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, which left more than 1,400 dead. .
A doctor in the Egyptian city of Al Arich, about 40 kilometers west of Rafah, told AFP on Tuesday that “a 1,300 square meter field hospital has been set up in Sheikh Zueid,” about ten kilometers west of Rafah. Rafah.
On Tuesday night in Washington, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller reported “very good progress” on the issue of possible passage through Rafah of Americans and dual citizens stranded in Gaza .
Source: TSF
