At least 20,000 Palestinians have been injured in the roughly three weeks that Israel has bombed the Gaza Strip, reports the news agency. The hospitals inside Gaza are overcrowded, and local doctors say that they carry out operations in the corridors, often without anesthesia. The Israeli blockade has led to acute shortages of medical equipment, clean water and fuel for generators. The first group The announcement by the Palestinian Border Authority came shortly after Egyptian sources said last night that Egypt was ready to accept wounded Palestinians from Gaza. RAMMES: The Israeli bombing of Gaza has resulted in many Palestinians being injured. Photo: AP The group will be transported out through the Rafah border crossing in the south of the Gaza Strip. – Health personnel will be ready at the Rafah border crossing to examine patients coming from the Gaza Strip and assess which hospitals they should be forwarded to, an unnamed source in the health care system in the Egyptian city of El Arish told the AFP news agency. The Rafah border crossing is the only border crossing in Gaza that is partially open. No date has been announced for when the Palestinian patients will be transferred to Egypt. Communication down Internet and mobile networks are down again today across the entire Gaza Strip, reports the Palestinian Telecommunications Agency. It is the second time in a short time that mobile phones and the internet do not work. The last time the connection came back after about a day. NETWORK DOWN: Palestinians in Gaza do not have a mobile connection today. Photo: AFP While the internet was down, it became very difficult to get information out of Gaza. It also caused major problems for the ambulance services in the area, who did not receive messages about where to pick up the wounded. Israeli military losses The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) states that 11 Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, according to AFP. The IDF made the statement early today, but without giving details of when and where the nine were killed. The Israeli Defense Forces have published this image which is supposed to show Israeli soldiers inside Gaza. Photo: AFP In addition, two other soldiers were seriously injured when they were wounded in battle yesterday. According to Ha’aretz, nine soldiers were killed when a rocket hit the armored vehicle they were sitting in in the north of the Gaza Strip. Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, the Israelis have lost 326 soldiers, according to the IDF’s figures. The Israeli Defense Force says today that it has attacked 11,000 “terrorist targets” in Gaza since the war began. Negotiations on foreigners American authorities say that there is now “real progress” in the negotiations to allow foreign nationals to travel out of Gaza. This is according to spokesperson Matthew Miller in the US Foreign Ministry, according to the Reuters news agency. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Friday. He will also visit several other countries in the Middle East.
ttn-69
Wounded Palestinians will be allowed to come to Egypt today – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries
