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Linah Alsaafin, Ashraf Amra

‘There are thousands more’: Wounded Palestinians cross into Egypt from Gaza

Egypt has allowed the medical transfer of dozens of wounded Palestinians through the Rafah border crossing for the first time since the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip began on October 7 [Ashraf Amra/Al Jazeera]

Rafah, Gaza Strip – A convoy of ambulances lined up on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing.

Inside one of them was volunteer paramedic Khader Shamout, but he wasn’t there to transport the wounded. Shamout had been transporting people injured in an Israeli air attack on October 20 when his ambulance was hit.

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