A small girl in a pink sweater is through the stinking bus windows as a go to Gaza on Saturday, full of 37 sick and injured patients, which most children with cancer cannot provide a medical treatment of hospital.
It was the first time that the medical evacuists could leave Gaza at the border crossings of Rafah, and outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, tortured and notes of children wrapped in coats, and invinced his documents in favor of the officers to confirm his place.
But their departure was bitter – only a few patients wrote a list that day, and each could bring only one companion.
A little boy who tried to squeeze the road on the bus with his ill brother and they took her mother.
“They didn’t let me pass,” Khalil, 8, still separates from a separate from the family, said the NBC News crew. “My brother went with my mom, he’s sick.”
The remaining are evacuated over Rafah, which crossed the Egypt, which was reopened as part of the fire break between Israel and Hamas.
According to the contract, 50 patients and wounded would be evacuated daily under the supervision of the World Health Organization.
Although most of the attention on the recirccilty fire focused on hostage editions, everyday medical evacuations will be hacking on the mountain.
“We need to speed up the pace because, again, we estimated between 12,000 to 14,000 critical patients,” Rick Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization for Occupied Palestinian Territories, “said for NBC News” crew in Gaza.
“Considers of the trauma, many of them of children. The violations of the spinal cord, burns, which need more specialized operations and rehabilitation in Gaza. Other patients for oncology, patients on cancer, chronic diseases and cardiovascular Diseases, which should be drawn from Gaza. “
The conflict destroyed a large of the treadmill infrastructure, causing its health system to crash. Behind the huge needs of the wounded number of war war, hundreds of thousands of people with acute and chronic diseases remained with limited or without access to medicine and treatment.
According to WHO, between the beginning of the war, 20. October, when this truce started on January 19, Gaza’s health system suffered more than 1,200 direct attacks, including at least 660 on health workers.
Israeli defense forces say that Hamas manages the command centers in hospitals, the benefits of urgent fighter transport and redirects the fuel assistance intended for hospital use for military purposes, charged HAMAS and hospital staff denies.
The scales of patients remain irresistible, and for some children it came too late.
According to Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmia, General Manager for the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, one Gasin Hospital, two children scheduled for evacuation on Saturdays, they died before they could travel.
Last week, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for 2,500 children who will be evacuated by a guarantee that he would be able to return to their families and communities. “
Medical evacuation were rare even before Rafah crossed closed. Between 2023. and 20. Maja, the United States, in partnership with hospitals, various NGOs in Gaza were in a state quietly to move only 150 patients, mostly children, from Gaza for life care.
After Rafah crossed when the Israeli forces captured in May 2024, it was impossible to become almost impossible.
The last significant evacuation seemed to be in June, when 21 critically ill children were evacuated from the Gaza strip.
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2025-02-02 13:09:00
