Civilians leaving display their documents as dual national Palestinians and foreigners prepare to cross the Rafah border point with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 2, 2023. - One month after Israel was wracked by Hamas attacks, life has been upended for both the Palestinians and Israel after it launched a war of reprisal in the Gaza Strip. The October 7 attacks by Hamas militants who stormed across from Gaza and struck kibbutzim and southern Israeli areas killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and deeply scarred the nation. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says nearly 9,500 have been killed, two-thirds of them women and children, and mostly civilians. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories: Gaza’s Hamas government suspended the evacuation of foreign passport holders to Egypt for a second day in a row Sunday after Israel refused to allow some injured Palestinians to be evacuated, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said.
“The terminal is closed because Israel prohibits the wounded from crossing into Egypt for treatment,” a source within Gaza’s Hamas government told AFP under the condition of anonymity.
“No foreigners will be able to leave as long as the injured are stranded” in Gaza, the source added.
An official on the Egyptian side of the Rafah terminal confirmed to AFP that no evacuations took place on Sunday.
A senior US official said on Friday that efforts to get foreign nationals out of Gaza had been held up by Hamas’s attempt to get its own wounded fighters to be evacuated through Rafah.
About one-third of the wounded Palestinians on the evacuation list were members of Hamas, the official said. “That was just unacceptable to Egypt, to us, to Israel,” the official added.
The Rafah border crossing from Gaza to Egypt opened up Wednesday after weeks of war, allowing a trickle of wounded Palestinians and people with dual nationality to leave, all desperate to escape Israel’s relentless bombardment.
But the evacuations were suspended on Saturday.
The White House on Sunday announced that more than 300 Americans, US residents and their families have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip as Israel’s fight against Hamas rages.
Israel launched a war against Hamas in Gaza following the October 7 attacks by the group’s militants which claimed 1,400 lives — mostly civilians — according to Israel.
The Gaza health ministry says Israel’s retaliatory air, land and sea attacks on the enclave have killed nearly 9,800 Palestinians, also mostly civilians.
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