The Rafah crossing has opened to allow a limited number of people to cross from beseiged Gaza into Egypt. It is expected that foreign nationals, dual-passport holders and some of the most seriously injured will be allowed through by Egyptian authorities, in a deal said to be brokered by Qatar.
Images showed families and vehicles queueing up to exit Gaza, amid reports that Egypt would allow in 81 seriously injured people. A line of ambulances was seen waiting to take the sick and injured.
AFP reports it was not immediately clear how many people managed to leave via Rafah on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, but live footage from the scene showed crowds of people entering the Palestinian side of the terminal. It said 400 foreigners and dual nationals were expected to make the crossing.
The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, said on social media: “The Rafah crossing is likely to open today for a first group of foreign nationals. UK teams are ready to assist British nationals as soon as they are able to leave. It’s vital that lifesaving humanitarian aid can enter Gaza as quickly as possible.”
It would mark the first time people have been allowed to leave Gaza since Israel began its latest aerial bombardment, which has killed thousands of Palestinians, on 7 October. Israel launched the attacks after the Hamas massacre inside Israel.
The move comes as the telecoms providers Paltel and Jawwal reported a “complete disruption” of communications and internet services in Gaza, the second major cut in five days. Humanitarian aid agencies have warned that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a statement addressing the loss of Israeli soldiers during the IDF campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
He said:
We are in a difficult war. This will be a long war. We have so many important achievements but also painful losses. We know that every soldier of ours is an entire world. The entire people of Israel embrace you, the families, from the depth of our heart.
We are all with you during your heavy sorrow. Our soldiers have fallen in the most just of wars, the war for our home. I promise the citizens of Israel: We will complete the work – we will continue until victory.
The social media account of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has posted a message in the last few minutes to say:
This war isn’t a war between Israel and Gaza. It’s a war between falsehood and truth, a war between the arrogant powers and faith.
The world of imperialism has come forward with bombs, military pressure, tragedies, and crime, but you should know that the power of faith will overcome all of these, with God’s grace.
Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy has already responded on social media to the first part of the post, saying “The first truth to come out of this man’s mouth”, presumably framing for Israel the “arrogant powers” and “faith” in the opposite direction.
Hamas’ armed wing al-Qassam Brigades claimed on Wednesday that seven civilian hostages were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabalia refugee camp, including three foreign passport holders, Reuters reports.
Hamas seized over 240 hostages during its murderous rampage inside Israel on 7 October, including children, women and the elderly. Since then it has released four civilians, the Israeli army cliams to have rescued one IDF soldier who was a hostage, and Shani Louk, who was thought to be a hostage, has been declared killed.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Muslim states to cease oil and food exports to Israel in order to stop the bombardment of Gaza during a speech on Wednesday, Reuters reports, citing Iranian state media.
Israel’s airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp, which it claims targeted a Hamas commander, are part of the “terrible nature” of the conflict in the Middle East, the UK’s deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, has said.
PA Media reports, asked by Sky News, whether Israel had broken international law with the strikes, Dowden said: “This is the reality of the conflict with an organisation like Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organisation that has murdered in cold blood over 1,000 innocent Israeli men, women and children, and now seeks to hide amongst the civilian population. This is a very difficult conflict.
“We continue to urge the Israeli government to abide by international law. I believe that the Israeli government is continuing to do so against an enemy that hides among civilians. It is the terrible nature of this appalling conflict.”
Just a third of primary care facilities are functioning in Gaza, while the hospitals remaining open have substantially reduced services, the World Health Organization has said.
Issuing a new update on the situation in Gaza via social media, it said:
The crisis in Gaza is having a devastating impact on access to health care for patients with long-term needs. Patients with cancer, diabetes, heart disease and mental ill health face medicine stockouts and have been cut off from health services. Just a third of primary care facilities are functioning, while the 66% of hospitals remaining open have substantially reduced services to cope with massive casualties. Before 7 October, around 100 patients each day needed health care outside Gaza because of lack of availability of health care.
An Egyptian security source has told Reuters that up to 500 foreign passport-holders will pass the Rafah border crossing from Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday.
About 200 people were waiting at the Palestinian side of the border on Wednesday morning, the source said.
A second source with knowledge of the deal and evacuations said there was a list of up to 500 who would leave the Gaza Strip, but, Reuters reports, not all were expected to make it out on Wednesday.
Earlier this morning, Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israel was prepared for “a long and complex campaign”.
In a message posted to social media, Gallant wrote:
The fall of IDF fighters in the battles against Hamas terrorists in Gaza is a hard and painful blow. Our hearts and thoughts are with their dear families.
The significant achievements of the powerful fighting in the depths of the Gaza Strip unfortunately exact a heavy price. We are prepared and ready for a long and complex campaign that requires courage, determination and perseverance – we will win.
Here is a video clip which appears to show ambulances and some of an aid convoy this morning moving through the Rafah crossing.
The Rafah crossing has opened to allow a limited number of people to cross from beseiged Gaza into Egypt. It is expected that foreign nationals, dual-passport holders and some of the most seriously injured will be allowed through by Egyptian authorities, in a deal said to be brokered by Qatar.
Images showed families and vehicles queueing up to exit Gaza, amid reports that Egypt would allow in 81 seriously injured people. A line of ambulances was seen waiting to take the sick and injured.
AFP reports it was not immediately clear how many people managed to leave via Rafah on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, but live footage from the scene showed crowds of people entering the Palestinian side of the terminal. It said 400 foreigners and dual nationals were expected to make the crossing.
The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, said on social media: “The Rafah crossing is likely to open today for a first group of foreign nationals. UK teams are ready to assist British nationals as soon as they are able to leave. It’s vital that lifesaving humanitarian aid can enter Gaza as quickly as possible.”
It would mark the first time people have been allowed to leave Gaza since Israel began its latest aerial bombardment, which has killed thousands of Palestinians, on 7 October. Israel launched the attacks after the Hamas massacre inside Israel.
The move comes as the telecoms providers Paltel and Jawwal reported a “complete disruption” of communications and internet services in Gaza, the second major cut in five days. Humanitarian aid agencies have warned that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in Gaza.
Here is a short video clip purporting to show the first foreign nationals and dual-passport holders being able to exit through the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt.
AFP reports that its images show long lines of ambulances and several people in wheelchairs at the Rafah border crossing. Egypt said it would let in 81 of the most seriously injured.
Egypt also announced the first foreigners could exit Gaza.
Video footage from the crossing shows people and vehicles moving to exit Gaza for the first time since the escalation of violence following the Hamas attack inside Israel on 7 October.
The video stream of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt shows people and cars beginning to move through.
A limited evacuation of foreign nationals and sick people is expected, in a deal brokered by Qatar.
More details soon …
Reuters has a quick snap that the UK’s foreign secretary, James Cleverly, has also said that the Rafah crossing is expected to open today for limited travel by foreign nationals.
A source has told Reuters that Qatar has mediated an agreement between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the US, which will allow limited evacuations of foreign passport holders and some critically injured people.
There are small groups of people waiting at the crossing.
Israel has accused Bolivia of “aligning itself with the Hamas terrorist organisation” after the South American state broke off diplomatic ties with Israel yesterday.
In a message posted to social media, the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson Lior Haiat said:
The government of Bolivia’s decision to cut diplomatic ties with Israel is a surrender to terrorism and to the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran.
By taking this step, the Bolivian government is aligning itself with the Hamas terrorist organization, which slaughtered over 1,400 Israelis and abducted 240 people, including children, women, babies and the elderly.
Israel condemns Bolivia’s support of terrorism and its submission to the Iranian regime, which attest to the values the government of Bolivia represents.
Since the change of government in Bolivia, relations between the countries have been devoid of content.
The decision by Bolivia was announced at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. “We demand an end to the attacks on the Gaza Strip which have so far claimed thousands of civilian lives and caused the forced displacement of Palestinians,” a government minister told reporters in her country’s de facto capital, La Paz.
The governments of Chile and Colombia have also recalled their ambassadors from Israel.
Israel’s military has said it has deployed missile boats in the Red Sea. Yesterday, it said it intercepted a surface-to-surface missile and “hostile targets” in the Eilat region, which were later claimed by Yemen’s Houthis.
In a post on the Telegram messaging app, the Israel Defence Forces said:
In accordance with the situational assessment and as part of defensive efforts in the area, yesterday, Israeli Navy missile boats arrived in the area of the Red Sea.
It issued images of the ships on patrol in the region.
Eilat is Israel’s southernmost city, near Israel’s borders with Egypt and Jordan. It also came under fire from a long-range missile attempt from the Gaza Strip in recent days.
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