A group of 32 Brazilians are already in Egypt awaiting a repatriation flight after several failed attempts to leave the Gaza Strip, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry announced today.
In a publication on the social network
A group of 32 Brazilians and relatives are already on Egyptian territory, where they were received by a team from the Brazilian Embassy in Cairo, responsible for the final phase of the repatriation operation.
– Itamaraty Brazil (@ItamaratyGovBr) November 12, 2023
The ministry added that “two people from the group included in the original list of 34 names gave up repatriation and decided to remain in Gaza.”
Brazilian citizens passed through Palestinian migration control in Gaza and entered Egypt through the Rafah border post this morning.
A group of 32 Brazilians and relatives are already on Egyptian territory, where they were received by a team from the Brazilian Embassy in Cairo, responsible for the final phase of the repatriation operation.
– Itamaraty Brazil (@ItamaratyGovBr) November 12, 2023
According to statements by Brazil’s Ambassador to Egypt, Paulino Carvalho Neto, to Globo, the group is expected to spend the next night in Egypt and depart for Brazil on Monday on the presidential plane from Cairo airport.
On November 4, Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party (PT) denounced that Israeli authorities had three times prevented Brazilian citizens from leaving the Gaza Strip.
“The Israeli government has denied for the third time the departure of Brazilian citizens threatened by the massacre against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip,” PT Chairman Gleisi Hoffmann said in a statement on social media.
Hoffmann also reported that Israel is sending Palestinian workers back to the Gaza Strip, where they are being bombed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “doesn’t want Palestinians in the country,” he said.
“These kinds of attitudes say a lot about this war. It is becoming an ethnic cleansing,” he emphasized.
On October 7, Hamas – classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel – carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory, killing more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, and taking more than 200 hostages . whom he holds captive in the Gaza Strip.
Israel then began strong retaliation against that poor Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007, with cuts to supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel and daily bombardments, followed by a ground offensive that completed the siege on Thursday. Gaza.
This conflict caused at least 11,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip and 1,400 in Israel.
Source: DN
