Israel’s offensive in Rafah, aimed at eliminating Hamas’s last battalions, has dashed any hope of escape for ill and injured Palestinian civilians.
JERUSALEM — Palestinians in Gaza already had little chance of escaping the war. Then came Israel’s capture of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt last month, sealing off the last remaining exit.
Palestinians bustle through a market in Khan Younis, Gaza, on June 9. Since Israel captured the Rafah border crossing, Gazans are not able to leave the Strip. “Her health condition is deteriorating and the tumor is spreading,” he told The Post on May 31. “There is no medical care, even the painkillers that are given are weak and not sufficient for a cancer patient.”The World Health Organization estimated on June 7 that 14,000 people in Gaza need to be evacuated for medical treatment.
He was paralyzed in March, he told The Post by phone, when a sniper shot hit his spinal cord as he was pulling the bodies of dead relatives from the rubble of a strike in southern Gaza. He received a medical referral from the International Medical Corps Hospital in Khan Younis and had hoped to travel in mid-April, he said, but his name never appeared on the list of those approved to transit through Rafah.
Many fundraised online and pooled their life savings to apply to leave through Hala Consulting and Tourism, an Egyptian company that reportedly has close ties to the country’s security services.Hala charged a “coordination” fee — averaging about $5,000 per adult and $2,500 per child, astronomical sums in Gaza — to register names on the Egyptian list of people approved to enter. Typically, Palestinians were required to have a relative pay in person at Cairo’s Hala offices in U.S.
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