Dozens of people wounded in Israeli bombings and people with international passports They were evacuated from the Gaza Strip this Wednesday through the Rafah crossing, located on the border with Egypt.

The Gaza Ministry of Interior confirmed this Wednesday that authorized the departure of foreigners of various nationalities from the Gaza Strip, under the control of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

The ministry’s General Agency for Border Crossings and Crossings in the Gaza Strip said in a statement on its Facebook page that Foreign passport holders were summoned to Gaza at 7:00 a.m. local time. cross to Egypt through the Rafa land pass.

He published a list of about 500 people, which includes both Palestinians with international passports and citizens of other countries, such nationalities as Japanese, Austrians and Bulgarians, as well as employees of international organizations such as Doctors Without Borders in Spain and France.

On the list It is not specified who has a US passport, Although this is one of the largest groups in the Gaza Strip, as many of those who appear on this list are called Palestinians with a different passport or “foreigners”.

In addition, the Egyptian TV channels ExtraNews and CairoNews confirmed this information. departure from Gaza of the “first group of Palestinians with dual citizenship.” This was reported to the agency by sources at the Rafah checkpoint. EFE that the group is “finalizing procedures to allow them to remain in Egyptian territory.”

Egypt, which categorically rejects the transfer of Palestinian refugees to the Egyptian Sinai, has repeatedly accused Israel of imposing restrictionsbefore the arrival of humanitarian aid in Gaza and the departure of foreigners from the enclave.

The Egyptian authorities have also repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to allow foreigners of various nationalities to cross the border, provided that they then travel to their own countries.

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The departure of people with foreign passports coincided with today’s entry into the Palestinian part of Rafah, the only entry into and exit from the besieged Palestinian territory that is not in Israeli hands. dozens of Egyptian ambulances to transport “seriously injured” as a result of Israeli bombing of the enclave for treatment in Egyptian hospitals.

This happened the day after it became known that Egypt would allow evacuation of more than 80 Palestinians in critical condition.

About 150 ambulances arrived. hours on the Egyptian side of the pass before their participation in the evacuation, This prompted North Sinai provincial governor Mohamed Shosha to put hospitals in the area on alert to receive the wounded as soon as they were evacuated.

Sosha further explained that Field hospital with 50 beds in the city of Sheikh Zuaid, is located west of Rafah, and authorities have set up three reception centers for accompanying wounded, according to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram.

To date, the pass has only been opened in a few specific cases. allow the entry of convoys with humanitarian aid.

The Oct. 7 Hamas attacks killed about 1,400 people and kidnapped more than 230, and authorities in the Islamist group’s Gaza Strip reported deaths more than 8,500 people were injured by Israeli bombings, Added to this figure are more than 110 deaths resulting from security forces operations and settler attacks in the West Bank.

(according to information from EFE And Europe Press)