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The Gaza Ministry of Health said a group of 50 patients exceeded Rafah to reach Egypt.
The Rafah border crossing opened for the first time in almost nine months to allow patients and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Saturday that a group of 50 patients had moved from Rafah to reach Egypt.
Egyptian television showed the Palestinian emergency room of the Red Cross, which retreated to the transition gate, and several children were carried out and transferred to an ambulance on the Egyptian side.
The re -opening of Rafah’s transition is a significant breakthrough that increases the trial agreement of Israel and Hamas agreed with the beginning of this month.
Israel agreed to reopen the transition after Hamas published the last living prisoners in Gaza. The opening also appears on the heels of Hamas, which previously published three Israeli prisoners in Gaza on Saturday in exchange for more than 180 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
Children are the first in what should be regular evacuation of Palestinians through a transition to treatment abroad.
Mohammed Zaqout, director of hospitals at the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said more than 6,000 patients were ready to be evacuated abroad, and more than 12,000 patients were urgently needed treatment.
He said small numbers set for evacuation would not cover the need, “and hopefully the number will increase.”
In the 15-month war of Israel on the enclave after Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, the Gaza Health Sector is decimal, leaving most of its hospitals out of work.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians wounded by Israeli bombing and ground abusive, they faced great gap in medical care.
Israeli forces closed the transition of Rafah in May 2024. After caught. Egypt followed the suit, excluding his side of the aisle in protest.
Even before the Gaza war, the Palestinians relied strongly to the transition, routinely reporting for permission to travel outside the territory because of rescue treatments that are not available in the enclave, including chemotherapy.
Cross control is congested with complexity.
Israel has long accused Hamas of using his control over the weapon smuggling border – Egypt has denied the claim. Israel also refused to allow Palestinian authorities to officially take over the management of the transition.
Instead, the transition will be staffed by Palestinians from Gaza who previously served as border officers with PA, but they will not be allowed to wear official and Insignia, a European diplomat, said an anonymous news agency AP.
The monitors of the European Union will also be present, as they were before 2007.
“This will support Palestinian border staff and enable the transfer of individuals from Gaza, including those who need medical care,” wrote European Policy Chief Kaja Kales Kallas on X, referring to her supervisory mission at the transition.
