Planned safe passage through Rafah land crossing into Egypt for foreign nationals and Palestinians with dual nationality cancelled by Israel
Palestinians with foreign passports arrive at the Rafah gate hoping to cross into Egypt as Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip continued on Saturday. Photograph: Said Khatib/AFP via Getty ImagesPlanned evacuations on Saturday of United Nations staff and international citizens including more than a dozen Irish people from the Gaza Strip have been postponed as Israel has reportedly refused to guarantee the evacuees safe passage.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Rafah crossing was struck by Israeli air strikes as hundreds of people with permission to leave and foreign passports attempted to leave Gaza. According to the Gazan health ministry, 1,900 Palestinians have been killed during an unrelenting, weeklong campaign of air strikes conducted by the Israeli military.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie – Swifties lose all inhibitions during this spectacle like no otherSince the attack, the Israeli authorities have refused to allow food and humanitarian aid supplies arriving in Egypt to be delivered to Gaza through the Rafah crossing; while the already fragile Gazan healthcare system is facing a total collapse without new medical supplies, water or electricity.
Yara Alagha, an Irish Palestinian with 10 family members trapped in Gaza including several with Irish citizenship, said: “We currently have a situation whereby the death toll of Gazan civilians has surpassed 1,900 people, including 614 children and Israel is refusing to allow for facilitation of humanitarian corridors and safe passages for innocent civilians to leave. This is a genocide, there is no other way to comprehend it.
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