Limited evacuations begin from Gaza via the Rafah border crossing
An injured Palestinian child is taken in an ambulance through the Rafah border crossing to Egypt for medical treatment on Wednesday. (Doaa Albaz/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The AP reports:
“After more than three weeks of siege, the first Palestinians – dozens of dual passport holders and those seriously injured – were allowed to leave the Gaza Strip, where Israeli airstrikes bombed a refugee camp for a second day on Wednesday.
Despite bombing forcing tens of thousands from their homes and running out of food, water and fuel, no one was allowed to leave the embattled enclave except four hostages released by Hamas. Another prisoner was rescued by Israeli forces earlier this week. However, a limited agreement appeared to have been reached on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Al-Jazeera television, one of the few media outlets still reporting from the northern Gaza Strip, broadcast footage of the devastation in the Jabalya refugee camp near Gaza City and the arrival of several injured people, including children, to a nearby hospital out of. The Hamas-led government said many people were killed and injured in the attacks, but the exact number was not yet known.
Al Jazeera’s footage showed almost identical scenes to the day before: dozens of men digging through the gray rubble of demolished multi-story buildings in search of survivors.