Israeli authorities have said 68 poorly and injured children and their companions have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since May, when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down.
The nearly nine-month Israel-Hamas war has devastated Gaza’s health sector and forced most of its hospitals to shut down.Health officials say thousands of people need medical treatment abroad, including hundreds of urgent cases. Six of the children were transferred to the Nasser Hospital from Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City earlier this week. Five have malignant cases of cancer and one suffers from metabolic syndrome.That evacuation was organised by the World Health Organisation , which could not immediately be reached for comment.
He said the cases included in Thursday’s evacuation are “a drop in the ocean” and that the complicated route through Kerem Shalom and into Egypt cannot serve as an alternative to the Rafah crossing.
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Israel says 68 poorly children have left Gaza in medical evacuationThe children and their companions left the Gaza Strip for Egypt via the Kerem Shalom crossing.
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