Six ambulances with wounded people arrived in Egypt, from the Gaza Strip, through Rafah. 50 trucks entered Gaza with humanitarian aid, and Israel banned the entry of fuel.
Six ambulances with injured people entered Egypt this Monday, from the Gaza Strip, through the Rafah terminal, reported an Egyptian official at the border post, cited by the French news agency AFP.
That border crossing in the Gaza Strip, the only one that Israel does not control, reopened this Mondayafter having been closed over the weekend, to transport the wounded to Egyptian hospitals and the departure of foreigners and dual nationals stranded in the Palestinian enclave.
A new column of humanitarian aid, made up of 50 trucksentered the Gaza Strip, Egyptian state television Al-Qahera News reported, adding that None of the vehicles had fuel.a resource whose entry is prohibited by Israel, for fear that it will fall into the hands of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in power in that small Palestinian territory since 2007.
The arrival of a new wave of wounded in Egypt comes after the Hamas government reported that the Israeli Army continued to prevent the evacuation of the wounded from the bombed city of Gaza in the south of the Strip, according to a press release from the local office executive.
According to the Egyptian Minister of Health, Khaled Abdelgafar, the Egypt receives between 40 and 50 wounded every day, “mostly children and women”since the Rafah terminal opened on November 1 to evacuate injured civilians.
Since the beginning of the access of droplets of humanitarian aid to the enclave, on October 21, A total of 476 trucks participatedaccording to the Palestinian Red Crescent, a tiny amount considering that, before the start of the war, more than 500 trucks entered daily, according to the UN.
The Gaza Strip has been intensely bombed by Israel since the unprecedented attack by the Islamist movement on Israeli territory on October 7, which left more than 1,400 dead, mostly civilians, around 5,000 injured and more than 200 hostages.
Israel’s retaliation began with cuts to food, water, electricity and fuel supplies and daily shelling, followed by a ground offensive that completed the siege of Gaza City last Thursday.
Source: Observadora
