A group of 32 people, including Brazilians and family members, arrived in Brazil this Monday, according to the authorities Egyptian authorities will allow them to leave the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday managed to board from Cairo.
The Brazilian Air Force plane that transported the group made a technical stop in Recife (northeast), already in Brazilian territory, at 8:30 p.m. (23:30 GMT on Tuesday) and then continued the flight. to Brasilia, the Brazilian capital.
According to the state news service Agencia Brasil, the group, which includes 17 children, will be received by the president. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at the Brasilia military airfield.
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In addition to the minors, the group includes nine women and six men. By nationality, 22 are Brazilians, seven are naturalized Palestinians and three are relatives of Palestinian nationality.
In Brasilia, the group will stay at the military transit hotel at the air base for at least two days and receive people Psychological support, medical care and vaccination.
Some members of the group will then go to other cities in Brazil, where they will stay with relatives, while others will be moved to a shelter in the interior of the country that specializes in receiving refugees. State of São Paulo.
The Brazilian government had I tried to evacuate for more than three weeks to its citizens in the Palestinian territory, and both the President and Chancellor Mauro Vieira had spoken on the phone several times to the leaders of Egypt and Israel.
Since the start of the conflict, sparked by the October 7 attack on Israeli territory by the Hamas group’s armed wing, Brazil had already repatriated 1,462 Brazilians, 11 Palestinians, three Bolivians and one Jordanian, as well as 53 pets, on nine flights.
Lula has condemned Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel but also lamented the thousands of civilian deaths caused by Israeli bombings
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