Dozens of people are allowed to enter Egypt for the first time since the war with Israel began.
Most patients are being taken to a new Egyptian field hospital that has been set up nearbyAmbulances carrying seriously injured Palestinians have crossed from Gaza into Egypt for the first time since the war between Israel and Hamas began.
Israel has been bombarding Gaza for more three weeks and has recently sent in ground forces in response to an unprecedented cross-border assault by Hamas gunmen in which 1,400 people were killed and 240 taken hostage. The BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf, who is at the crossing, was told by Palestinian passport control officers that 88 patients requiring advanced medical treatment were expected to be transferred to Egypt."Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are treating large numbers of injured people while suffering from a lack of medical supplies. Therefore cannot operate on such cases," Nassem Hasan, a medic working with Gaza's health ministry, told Reuters news agency.
"We need an immediate acceleration in the flow of medical aid permitted into Gaza. Hospitals must be protected from bombardment and military use." Mohammed Ghalayini, a British scientist from Manchester who had been in Gaza visiting family when the war began, accompanied his uncle to the crossing after he was named by Gaza authorities on the list of potential evacuees.
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