Hamas says it will soon release some of the 200 foreign captives it had seized during its attack on Israel
The agreement would allow foreign passport holders and some critically injured people to leave through the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, though there is no timeline for how long it will remain open for evacuation, the source added.
Egypt has prepared a field hospital in Sheikh Zuwayed in the Sinai, according to medical sources. Ten ambulances were sent to Rafah on Tuesday in anticipation. People sit in the waiting area at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip before crossing into Egypt. Scores of foreign passport holders trapped in Gaza started leaving the war-torn Palestinian territory. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/Getty Images
Mr Coveney said the targeting by Israeli forces of a building in a refugee camp in southern Gaza should raise serious concern in the light of international humanitarian law. “And that’s why I think there’s an increasing concern now amongst the international community as to the Israeli approach in Gaza. It must be said that a Palestinian child’s life is valued or should be valued in the same way as an Israeli or an Irish child’s life. And what we’re seeing at the moment, in my view, is not consistent with international humanitarian law.
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