New group of Gaza evacuees arrives in Moscow

New group of Gaza evacuees arrives in Moscow

As the state agency told Sputnik news agency, it was the seventh evacuation flight from Cairo, carrying 103 people, including 47 children, increasing the number of nationals repatriated to Russia to 656.

The Emergencies Ministry also reported that a total of 750 Russian citizens and their family members left the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt.

Since October 9th, Israel has kept the Palestinian enclave without basic services, although on the 16th it resumed water supplies to the southern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are displaced.

Many countries called on Israel and Hamas to cease hostilities and negotiate a ceasefire, and there were voices for a two-state solution as the only possible way to achieve lasting peace in the region.

So far, the hostilities have caused about 1,200 deaths and nearly 5,500 injuries in Israel and more than 14,500 deaths and about 35,000 injuries among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to official figures.

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