Egypt receives 17 people injured in Israeli war on Gaza

By Ibrahim Khazin

CAIRO (AA) - Egypt’s Health Ministry announced Monday that it received 17 injured Palestinians and conducted medical examinations on 166 foreigners arriving from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing.

“We received a group of our Palestinian brethren who were injured in the events in Gaza,” it said.

It said “medical examinations were conducted on all cases with precise diagnoses and their total number reached 17 wounded individuals.”

“All cases are receiving superior medical care from the medical teams at the Rafah crossing or within the hospitals,” it noted.

In addition, doctors at the crossing conducted medical examinations on 166 foreigners.

The ministry has not yet issued a comprehensive count of the number of injured Palestinians who have arrived since the reopening of the Rafah border crossing on Nov. 1.

On Nov. 1, it conducted medical examinations on 117 foreigners and said the first group of Palestinians injured in Gaza arrived at the Rafah crossing. Of them, 16 had been sent to hospitals.

It said in a statement the following day that it had received 21 people injured in Gaza through the Rafah crossing and that it had examined 344 foreigners medically.

On Nov. 3, 28 people from Gaza along with 448 foreigners arrived through the crossing.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala