{"id":229665,"date":"2025-02-01T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/rafah-crossing-reopens-for-wounded-to-leave-gaza-for-egypt\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:50:07","slug":"rafah-crossing-reopens-for-wounded-to-leave-gaza-for-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/rafah-crossing-reopens-for-wounded-to-leave-gaza-for-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafah Crossing Reopens for Wounded to Leave Gaza for Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/01\/multimedia\/01mideast-crisis-rafah-border-crossing-tzfg\/01mideast-crisis-rafah-border-crossing-tzfg-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rafah Crossing Reopens for Wounded to Leave Gaza for Egypt\" title=\"Rafah Crossing Reopens for Wounded to Leave Gaza for Egypt\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sick and wounded people left Gaza for Egypt through the Rafah border crossing on Saturday for the first time in nine months under a key provision of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But officials in the Gaza Health Ministry said that only 50 of the thousands of ill and injured people in need of treatment abroad would be able to cross on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Al Qahera News, an Egyptian state-owned TV channel, live-streamed ambulances arriving at Egypt\u2019s side of the crossing, carrying some of the ill and injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The crossing had been closed after Israel invaded Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, in May. The war has devastated the health system in Gaza, leaving the hospitals still in service struggling to provide care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s war in Gaza has caused immense destruction to medical facilities in the territory, including Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Israeli officials have accused Hamas of using a number of medical facilities for military purposes and have said that a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/15\/world\/middleeast\/al-shifa-hospital-israel.html\" title=\"\">raid on Al-Shifa<\/a> revealed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/03\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-tunnel-al-shifa-hospital.html\" title=\"\">a stone-and-concrete tunnel shaft<\/a> below the facility. Hamas has denied Israel\u2019s accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before Israel took over the crossing, tens of thousands of the sick and wounded Palestinians and foreigners escaping the war left through the passageway. Rafah was also a crucial entry point for trucks carrying aid into Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An appendix to the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas says that 50 wounded militants will be allowed to leave Gaza daily after receiving Israeli and Egyptian approvals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under the agreement, the number of ill and injured people crossing through Rafah will be increased, restrictions will be lifted and the movement of goods and trade will restart. But the terms did not specify when such changes would go into effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rik Peeperkorn, the top World Health Organization official for Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, described Saturday\u2019s evacuation as a positive step, but he said the pace must be increased through all possible exit routes. Some 12,000 to 14,000 people require treatment outside Gaza for severe injuries and chronic illnesses, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hamas had overseen the Palestinian side of the border between Gaza and Egypt until Israel\u2019s invasion of Rafah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The crossing is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/31\/world\/middleeast\/rafah-crossing-gaza-israel.html\" title=\"\">being reopened<\/a> with a new security arrangement between Israel, Egypt and the internationally backed Palestinian Authority, Hamas\u2019s rival, according to Israeli, Palestinian and European officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel has resisted the notion that the Palestinian Authority would control postwar Gaza, despite the urging of the former Biden administration in Washington. President Trump\u2019s vision for who might rule the enclave after the conflict remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The office of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said that the \u201cpractical involvement of the Palestinian Authority\u201d would be only \u201cits stamp on the passports.\u201d Israeli forces would remain \u201cpositioned around the crossing\u201d and no one would be allowed through without the approval of Israel\u2019s security services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Nick Cumming-Bruce<!-- -->, <!-- -->Aaron Boxerman<!-- --> and <!-- -->Johnatan Reiss<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/01\/world\/middleeast\/rafah-crossing-gaza-wounded-egypt.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sick and wounded people left Gaza for Egypt through the Rafah border crossing on Saturday for the first time in nine months under a key provision of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. 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