Ambulances cross Rafah crossing to evacuate injured and other foreigners from Gaza

Around 80 ambulances from Egypt arrived at the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning (1st) to receive injured Palestinian patients, an Egyptian border official told CNN in the passage.

The patients will be the first known Palestinians to be allowed to leave Gaza since the war began more than three weeks ago if they cross into Egypt.

Qatar brokered an agreement between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the US, to allow holders of foreign passports and seriously injured people to leave the Gaza Strip, a source told Reuters on Wednesday.

Egypt has prepared a field hospital to receive the injured from Sheikh Zuwayed in Sinai, according to medical sources.

There is no timetable for how long the Rafah border crossing will remain open for evacuation, the source added.

The director of Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, Mohammed Abu Silmiyeh, told CNN that most patients require surgical intervention in operating rooms, a procedure not currently available in Gaza.

(Published by Gustavo Zanfer, with information from Asmaa Khalil, in Rafah, Egypt; Zeena Saifi, from CNN , in Jerusalem; Andrew Mills, in Doha; and Michael Georgy, in Dubai; from Reuters)

Source: CNN Brasil

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