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Muhamad Yehia
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says it’s working to arrange medical evacuations for more than 100 people from Gaza on Wednesday, which would b
e the largest such operation of its kind in six months.
Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said the U.N. health agency was helping coordinate the evacuations through the Kerem Shalom crossing based on a list of priority candidates drawn up by the Health Ministry in Gaza.
Speaking by video from Gaza to reporters in Geneva, Peeperkorn said medical evacuations have been arranged for 282 people since Israeli forces forced the closure of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt on May 6.
Before the Rafah closure, nearly 4,700 people were ferried out of Gaza in medical evacuations since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, he said.
The largest one since May involved 97 people who were evacuated on Sept. 11. Thousands of people remain on waiting lists to get out.
WHO said people with chronic conditions like cancer as patients from trauma cases — injuries — were among those to be evacuated. Peeperkorn said most would be taken to the United Arab Emirates for further care, while about 30 were to go to Romania.
