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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports that over 20,000 injured individuals remain in the Gaza Strip after the first wave of critically injured Palestinians and holders of foreign passports were evacuated across the border to Egypt.
In a statement released on Wednesday, MSF mentioned the evacuation of “several severely injured” individuals and mentioned that 22 of its foreign staff members in Gaza were among those who departed the region through the Rafah border crossing.
“However, there are still over 20,000 injured people in Gaza with limited access to healthcare due to the siege,” added the statement.
It further stated that MSF’s Palestinian employees continued to provide medical care within the region and that an additional foreign team was poised to arrive “as soon as the situation allows” to take the place of the departing team.
The group continued by demanding that more people be evacuated, that there be a ceasefire, and that more essential help be permitted to enter.
“Those who want to leave Gaza should be able to do so right away. The right for them to return must likewise be granted,” the statement read.
At the southern border of Gaza on Wednesday, AFP reporters witnessed ambulances transporting injured evacuees to field hospitals in Egypt. Egyptian officials reported that 335 foreign nationals or dual citizens and 76 critically ill and injured persons had been admitted through the Rafah crossing.
In retaliation for the deadliest attack in its history—in which militants from Hamas broke through the border and killed 1,400 people, the majority of whom were civilians—Israel has been hitting Gaza nonstop, according to Israeli officials.
The health ministry in Gaza, which is operated by Hamas, reports that 8,796 Palestinians have died as a result of the bombing onslaught.
The dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, where food, fuel, and medicine are in limited supply for its 2.4 million inhabitants, has been brought to the attention of the UN and relief organizations.
After entering the region on Wednesday through the Rafah crossing, Philippe Lazzarini, the chief of the UN organization that assists Palestinian refugees, told reporters that he had “never seen” anything like it.
The most senior UN official to be permitted into the besieged area since the start of the war, Lazzarini, remarked, “I was shocked by the fact that everyone there was asking for food, was asking for water.”
Source- Reuters
