Egypt tears off the border with the Gaza Strip: who may be evacuated from the combat zone

Egypt maintains a border with Gaza / GettyImages and Collage 24 Channel

Wars against Palestinian militants Hamas continue in Israel. At the same time, foreign citizens are likely to be allowed to evacuate.

Egypt's Rafah crossing is “likely to open” on November 1. This route is the only route out of Israeli-controlled Gaza.

Help foreigners leave

Western countries previously called on Egypt to open its border with the Gaza Strip to allow foreigners to leave the war zone. James Cleverley, Britain's foreign secretary, said the “first group of foreign nationals” would be allowed to leave on November 1.

UK teams are ready to help British citizens as soon as they are able to leave. It is vital that life-saving humanitarian aid reaches the Gaza Strip as quickly as possible. – he said.

On the night of November 1, the Palestinian Border Guard also announced that 81 Gazans would be allowed to enter Egypt through the crossing to undergo hospital treatment.

Israel's war from Hamas: latest news

• On the morning of October 7, Palestinian Hamas militants launched a massive attack on Israel. Israeli intelligence missed the preparation of such a large-scale operation, and the state turned out to be unprepared. Western media wrote that this failure could be the biggest in the last 50 years, that is, since the Yom Kippur War.
• According to the French Foreign Ministry, two French children were killed in northern Gaza. The ministry said the children's mother, as well as his third child, suffered injuries, Reuters reported. France repeated its call for a humanitarian pause in the fighting and demanded that French citizens and foreign nationals be allowed to leave Gaza.
• On the night of November 1, Israel struck the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing Ibrahim Biari, who was one of the leaders of the terrorist attack in Israel on October 7. Also at least 50 Palestinians were killed