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Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt fails to open for foreigners
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67321463
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The exit of foreigners from Gaza via the Rafah border crossing has been halted in an apparent dispute over evacuating injured patients.
Sources from the crossing authorities on the Palestinian side told the BBC that movement of people with foreign passports is not being allowed until there is agreement on the safety of transferring injured patients.
It was their first opportunity to do so since the war began on 7 October, when Hamas gunmen staged an unprecedented assault on southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people.
But on Saturday, US special envoy David Satterfield told reporters that when the fuel runs out in Gaza, there is an agreed mechanism to bring more in.
On Friday, an ambulance that had been attempting to transport an injured person to the Rafah border crossing was hit outside Gaza City’s biggest hospital, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
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