Gaza: 21 patients evacuated to Egypt

Twenty-one cancer patients were evacuated from the besieged Gaza Strip to Egypt on Thursday, via the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing point, a medical source at Al Hospital told AFP. -Arich, in Egyptian Sinai.

“This is the first evacuation,” said this source, who requested anonymity, since the Rafah crossing on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt closed in early May after Israel took control on the Palestinian side.

Since then, Egypt and Israel have blamed each other for the closure of Rafah, with the Egyptian authorities refusing to manage the crossing in coordination with the Israeli side, preferring cooperation with international and Palestinian authorities.

Since then, international aid has been entering, in insufficient quantities, from the Kerem Shalom crossing point, not far from that of Rafah, which has become the only passage for the entry of aid into the besieged Palestinian territory and threatened with famine. . According to the UN, 500 trucks would need to enter every day to meet the immense needs of the residents of the Gaza Strip.

The war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the small territory of 2.4 million people, which is besieged by Israel and threatened with famine according to the UN.

And in the few hospitals still standing in Gaza, many patients who survived Israeli raids must be abandoned or die of infections due to the lack of simple gloves, masks or soap, said American caregivers returning from the Palestinian territory.

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