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Over 8,000 People Evacuated From Gaza Via Rafah Crossing - Egypt's Information Service

© AFP 2023 / MOHAMMED ABEDPalestinians pick up drinking water bottles that reportedly ended up on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip following a windy and rainy night, on November 20, 2023, amid deteriorating humanitarian circumstances as the battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas continue
Palestinians pick up drinking water bottles that reportedly ended up on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip following a windy and rainy night, on November 20, 2023, amid deteriorating humanitarian circumstances as the battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas continue - Sputnik International, 1920, 20.11.2023
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Over 8,000 evacuees from the Gaza Strip have arrived in Egypt via the Rafah border crossing, including 6,713 foreign nationals and dual citizens, Egypt's State Information Service reported on Monday.
The information service said that 929 Egyptian nationals had crossed the country's border from the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, Egyptian hospitals have admitted 236 patients and 197 accompanying persons from the conflict-torn enclave, according to the information service.
The Rafah crossing is the only route in and out of Gaza for the civilian population there, as well as the main artery for humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave.
Wounded Palestinians sit in Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital, in the central Gaza Strip - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.10.2023
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