Hamas suspends evacuation of foreigners to Egypt

Hamas government suspended evacuation of foreign passport holders to Egypt on Saturday after Israel refused to allow wounded Palestinians to head to Egyptian hospitals.

“No foreign passport holder will be able to leave the Gaza Strip until wounded people who need to be evacuated from hospitals in north Gaza are transported through the Rafah crossing”, a border official said on Saturday.

An Egyptian security source said that “no wounded person or holder of a foreign passport arrived at the Egyptian terminal” of Rafah yesterday.

He added that the evacuation was suspended “after the bombing of ambulances transporting injured people who were on their way to the Egyptian terminal”.

The Israeli occupation forces said it had struck a vicinity of ambulances carrying wounded out of Al-Shifaa Medical Complex, Gaza’s largest hospital.

The strike killed at least 15 people and wounded 60.

Around 40,000 innocent civilians are seeking shelter in the hospital from the vicious Israeli bombardment.