Scores of foreign passport holders started leaving war-torn Gaza Wednesday after Egypt opened the Rafah crossing for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, AFP correspondents said.
It was not immediately clear how many people managed to leave via Rafah on Gaza's southern border with Egypt, but live footage from the scene showed crowds of people entering the Palestinian side of the terminal.
The tiny coastal territory has also suffered "catastrophic" shortages of food, water and electricity following an almost total Israeli blockade in response to the attacks, the worst in Israel's history, that killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians. Palestinian sources said they expected 88 people to be taken across for treatment in Egyptian hospitals.
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