Egypt Gets Ready to Treat Wounded Palestinians from Gaza

Displaced Gazans ride in the back of a donkey-drawn cart as they cross the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into the northern part on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Displaced Gazans ride in the back of a donkey-drawn cart as they cross the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into the northern part on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
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Egypt Gets Ready to Treat Wounded Palestinians from Gaza

Displaced Gazans ride in the back of a donkey-drawn cart as they cross the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into the northern part on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
Displaced Gazans ride in the back of a donkey-drawn cart as they cross the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into the northern part on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Hospitals and medics in Egypt are making preparations to treat wounded Palestinians from Gaza once the border reopens in the coming days.

At least 15 ambulances were seen lined up and waiting Tuesday on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing. In the meantime there are tents, hygiene products and medicine being sent into Gaza, said Ahmed Abdullah, the emergency coordinator in Rafah for Egypt’s Red Crescent aid group.

Before the Rafah crossing was captured by Israel and closed last spring, around 800 Palestinian patients from Gaza were treated at hospitals just across the border in North Sinai, according to Gov. Khaled Megawer. Some of those patients were able to travel abroad for care, he said.

If the coming influx of patients proves too great, he said, they can be transferred to hospitals in Cairo or other parts of Egypt.



Lebanon's President Tells US Senior Official Israeli Occupation in Remaining Points Must End

Israeli soldiers stand near to a tank near Israel's border with Lebanon in northern Israel, October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
Israeli soldiers stand near to a tank near Israel's border with Lebanon in northern Israel, October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
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Lebanon's President Tells US Senior Official Israeli Occupation in Remaining Points Must End

Israeli soldiers stand near to a tank near Israel's border with Lebanon in northern Israel, October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
Israeli soldiers stand near to a tank near Israel's border with Lebanon in northern Israel, October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun on Wednesday told US national security adviser Mike Waltz that it is necessary to end the Israeli occupation in the remaining points and complete the implementation of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Israeli troops withdrew on Tuesday from most of south Lebanon but Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Israel would temporarily remain in five points needed for its security, Reuters reported.

The Lebanese presidency said that Lebanon would consider any remaining Israeli presence on Lebanese land an occupation.

Israel had been due to withdraw by January 26, but this was extended to February 18 after it accused Lebanon of failing to enforce the terms. Lebanon at the time accused Israel of delaying its withdrawal.