The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip indicated that 21 children were sent to receive treatment in the neighboring country and as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, particularly after Israeli troops took control of the Rafah border crossing, suspending most operations humanitarian.
According to the Palestinian daily Filastin, considered close to Hamas, the children were removed from the Kerem Shalom border crossing, under the supervision of the World Health Organization (WHO). Sources from the Egyptian Red Crescent confirmed this operation and indicated that the children will be admitted to several hospitals.
The ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip was triggered by the attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, which caused around 1,130 deaths and more than two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
Since then, Tel Aviv has launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip that has so far caused more than 37,000 deaths and more than 85,000 injuries, according to authorities in the Palestinian enclave, controlled by Hamas since 2007.
It is estimated that 10,000 Palestinians remain buried in the rubble after around eight months of war.
The conflict has also caused almost two million people to be displaced, plunging the overpopulated and poor Palestinian enclave into a serious humanitarian crisis, with more than 1.1 million people in a “situation of catastrophic hunger” that is claiming victims – “the highest number ever recorded” by the UN in studies on food security in the world.
The occupied West Bank is witnessing the greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-2005), with at least 536 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, most of them carried out by the military, but also by settlers.
The Jewish State justifies its military incursions into the area as “special operations” to capture leaders and fighters of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Israeli side states that since the beginning of this year until the end of May, 12 people have been killed in the occupied West Bank in ten Palestinian attacks, including six soldiers and six civilians, three of them settlers.
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