Foreign passport holders and some critically injured people will be allowed to leave through the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, though there is no timeline for how long it will remain open.
Limited evacuations will be allowed from besieged Gaza through the Rafah crossing, following a Qatar-mediated agreement between Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, Reuters news agency reported on Wednesday.
According to Reuters, “The agreement would allow foreign passport holders and some critically injured people to leave through the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, though there is no timeline for how long it will remain open for evacuation”.
The deal is not linked to other negotiations related to the prisoners held by Hamas or pauses to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported, citing a source.
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Israel has, thus far, killed over 8,500 Palestinians in Gaza, including 3,457 children, and wounded more than 23,000. Palestinian Ministry of Health reports and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
Despite a massive Israeli military buildup around the Gaza borders and sporadic infiltrations on the outskirts of the besieged Strip, Palestinian Resistance continues to repel Israeli attacks.
🚨 AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: 7 civilian detainees were killed in the Jabalia massacre on Tuesday, including 3 holders of foreign passports.
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To justify its military failure, the Israeli army continues to pound civilian homes throughout the Gaza Strip with new massacres reported everywhere in the besieged enclave.
Gaza has been under a tight Israeli military siege since 2007, following a democratic election in occupied Palestine, the results of which were rejected by Tel Aviv and Washington.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
