The group of 34 Brazilians staying in the Gaza Strip region will be able to leave the territory this Wednesday (8) via the border with Egypt. According to the report, the information was confirmed Weather in Brasília through a source of national diplomacy. The resolution is expected to occur “as quickly as possible.”
Last week, Itamaraty Minister Mauro Vieira said that Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen had given a guarantee that citizens with Brazilian citizenship would leave the region by this Wednesday.
Since the conflict between Israel and the extremist group Hamas began on October 7, they have been waiting for the State Department to open the border for rescue. The Brazilian government has vehicles ready to take them to an airport on Egyptian territory, where a plane from the Presidency of the Republic has been waiting for almost two weeks to take them to Brazil.
Of the 34 citizens with Brazilian citizenship, 17 are children. And this Friday (3) they were again removed from a fifth list of foreigners allowed to cross the border into Egypt. This process of releasing foreigners and seriously injured people from Gaza began last Wednesday (1st) and has already taken care of almost 2,831 of the approximately 7,000 citizens authorized to leave.
Understand the departure of foreigners from the site
Foreigners depart through the Rafah border crossing, which connects the cities of the same name in Gaza and Egypt. Mauro Vieira had already contacted Egyptian, Qatari, North American and Israeli authorities to expedite approval.
Although Gaza’s border is Egyptian, the list was sent to Israel, which was attacked by Hamas on October 7 and started a war by attacking Gaza, a Palestinian territory controlled by the group.
Qatar is crucial in arranging the release of foreigners as it is a Persian Gulf country that hosts some of the Hamas leadership but maintains dialogues with Israel, Palestine and the United States.
FAB rescues Brazilians in the West Bank
While Israel prevented Brazilians from leaving Gaza, The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) rescued others in the West Bank, a Palestinian territory not controlled by Hamasbut by the Palestinian Authority, an opponent of the group that started the war with Israel.
The VC2 aircraft (Embraer 190) provided by the Presidency of the Republic, which landed at the Brasília air base on Thursday morning (2), was the ninth to return to Brazil as part of the Federal Government’s Operation Returning in Peace. since the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East. However, it was the pioneer in repatriating Brazilian citizens rescued from the Palestinian territory in the West Bank.
The other eight previous FAB flights repatriated Brazilians who were in Israel. With the landing of the VC2 aircraft on Thursday, 1,445 passengers and 53 pets were rescued on flights that had already returned to Brazil. Most were in Israel.
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