The WHO estimates that between 12,000 and 14,000 people need to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip. The operation was coordinated by the United Arab Emirates, the EU and the WHO.
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The Israeli military body responsible for the management of civil affairs in Gaza (Cogat) and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced this Wednesday the Evacuation of some 230 patients and their families from the Palestinian enclave..
The patients left Gaza by bus through the Kerem Shalom border crossing in the southeast of the territory.are transported to the United Arab Emirates and Romania from the Ramon airport, near the Red Sea, explained Cogat, an organization dependent on the Israeli Ministry of Defense. This transfer was carried out in cooperation with the Emirates, the European Union (EU) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the organization added in a statement.
According to Cogat, this is the largest number of patients and their families, including children, who have been authorized to use the Kerem Shalom border crossing “in recent months.” The WHO indicated that 84 patients would be transferred to the Emirates and six to Romania, estimating, however, between 12,000 and 14,000 the number of patients that must be transported out of the enclave.
Before the closure of the Rafah border crossing by the Israelis on May 6, 2024, Almost 4,700 patients could be removed from Gaza.with the help in particular of the WHO, appointed on Tuesday Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, head of the UN agency in the Palestinian Territories.
“But Since then, only 282 patients have been evacuated from Gaza.“, and the vast majority of them went to the United Arab Emirates, he added.
The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered on October 7, 2023 by the unprecedented attack carried out by Hamas against Israel, which resulted in the death of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to a count by Agence France -Presse (AFP) based on official Israeli data, including hostages killed or those killed in captivity.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza left 43,391 dead, most of them civilians, according to data from the Hamas government’s Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the UN. According to the same source, at least 102,347 people were also injured.
Source: Observadora
