The Fire between Israel and Hamas continues to advance and, together with the liberation of Jewish hostages and the entry of humanitarian aid, this Saturday the first evacuation of Gaza of Palestinian wounded has taken place since May. Fifty patients, women … And children accompanied by another half a hundred relatives, have left the Gaza Strip for the passage of Rafah, which connects with Egypt and had closed eight months. An evacuation that has been extended throughout the day.
In the midst of expectation, the ambulances of the Egyptian Ministry of Health, which had been waiting all morning, have entered the Customs of Gaza, where they have collected the injured that the red crescent vehicles brought. From Rafah, the convoy has addressed the nearby Hospital of El Arish, where they will be evaluated so that doctors decide whether they can be treated or should be transferred to Cairo to receive treatment.
«I am very optimistic to continue the agreement. If the two parties attend the norms, we will go to phase two and then to the three and see the end of the war, ”the governor of the North Sinai was congratulated, Khaled Migaour, bgarlic the entrance door to the Egyptian customs. In addition, he explained that “the evacuation has been today, and does not a week ago, for the destruction on the Palestinian side,” alluding to the bombings of the Israeli army that destroyed that part of the border in May.
Together with the injured of this first evacuation, they are expected more during the next few days, but the governor could not give concrete figures. What he said was that «the injured Palestinians cannot stay here after their treatment. They have come just to heal ». In this regard, he recalled that «last year we attended 800 injured In our hospitals and we still have 690 people who were trapped when Rafah’s passage closed, many of them relatives who accompanied the patients ».
While the truce continues, humanitarian aid trucks return to Rafah, which ABC was able to visit just a year ago and where this correspondent has returned this Saturday. To get to this enclave, you have to cross the north of the Sinai Peninsula, a closed area to foreigners and journalists for the jihadist threat. After seven hours by bus from Cairo, in which we cross the tunnel under the Suez channel and travel a road full of military potholes and controls in the middle of the desert, we return to Rafah’s pass on a trip for the press organized by the government Egyptian.
Since the border was reopened with the beginning of the high fire three weeks ago, here they have spent each day between 250 and 350 trucks With humanitarian aid, plus twenty tanks with fuel, according to official Egyptian sources. From Rafah’s crossing, all these transports must travel another five kilometers along the Egyptian border to Kerem Shalom’s customs or 40 kilometers more to the control of Al Awja (Nitzana), where they are inspected by the Israeli authorities.
Although some drivers complain that they have been waiting for five days, there are less trucks than a year ago and it seems that Israeli controls are not as strict as then. The reason, for some, is that perhaps it does not trust that the high fire goes to the following phases and the time to take all the assistance that is possible is being taken. Whatever happens, with the truce humanitarian aid has returned, and also hope.
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