Seriously injured people cross the border
Ambulances from Gaza reach Egypt
November 1, 2023, 12:21 p.m
Seriously injured people cannot be adequately cared for in the Gaza Strip. Therefore, some of them are taken to Egypt for medical care. The first ambulances cross the border.
The first ambulances carrying injured people from the Gaza Strip have arrived in Egypt, according to an Egyptian official. Egyptian television channels showed footage of ambulances arriving on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing. A total of around 90 seriously injured Palestinians are to be taken to Egyptian facilities for medical treatment.
On the Palestinian side of the border crossing, a journalist observed at least 40 ambulances, each with two injured people, arriving at the Rafah border crossing to travel to Egypt. The injured are reportedly being taken to a field hospital in the town of Sheikh Suweid, around 15 kilometers from Rafah, as well as to a hospital in El Arish and, in the most complicated cases, in Cairo.
The spokesman for the Hamas-controlled health ministry in the Gaza Strip told AFP that a list of 4,000 injured people had been sent to Egypt. The injured needed care that could not be provided in the Gaza Strip.
The Rafah border crossing is the only border crossing into the Gaza Strip that is not controlled by Israel. This Wednesday, the border crossing was opened to people for the first time since Hamas’ major attack on Israel on October 7th.
More than three weeks ago, the radical Islamic Hamas ruling in the Gaza Strip killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped at least 240 people into the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented major attack on Israel, according to Israeli sources. In response to the Hamas attack, Israel has put the Gaza Strip under constant fire. According to Hamas figures that cannot be independently verified, the Israeli bombings have killed more than 8,500 Palestinians since October 7, including more than 3,500 children.