STORY: Rafah crossing open to receive patients from Gaza: Egyptian official
SHOOTING TIME: recent footage
DATELINE: Feb. 1, 2025
LENGTH: 00:01:02
LOCATION: Cairo
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of ambulances and aid trucks passing through Rafah crossing

STORYLINE:

The Rafah crossing, the only channel linking Egypt with the Gaza Strip, is open and will start receiving patients from Gaza, Governor of Egypt's North Sinai Governorate Khaled Megawer said on Friday.

"The opening of the crossing was announced earlier today. We will start receiving patients," the governor said on social media platform X, without mentioning the exact time of the passage of Gazan patients through the crossing.

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that the first group of sick and injured individuals will be allowed to leave the Palestinian enclave through the Rafah crossing on Saturday.

In a press statement, the ministry called the move part of urgent humanitarian efforts to provide critically ill and wounded people with medical treatment outside the besieged territory.

"The departure of these patients will be coordinated under the supervision of the World Health Organization and other relevant authorities," the ministry added.

According to health officials, the selected patients and their companions are scheduled to gather at the Al-Shifa and Nasser medical complexes in Gaza before being transported to the crossing.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Cairo.
(XHTV)