Palestinian children began crossing to Egypt for treatment through Gaza's Rafah crossing on Saturday, the first opening of the border since Israel captured it nearly nine months ago.
ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed on last month. Israel agreed to reopen the crossing after Hamas released the previous living female captives in Gaza.
Al-Qahera television showed at least two Palestinian Red Cross ambulances pulling up to the crossing gate.
The children are the first in what are meant to be regular evacuations of Palestinians through the crossing for treatment abroad.
decimated Gaza's health sector, leaving most of its hospitals out of operation even as more than 110,000 Palestinians were wounded by Israel's bombardment and ground offensives, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
closed the crossing in early May after seizing it during an offensive on the southern city. Egypt shut down its side of the passage in protest.
blockade undermined health facilities and impoverished the population. Palestinians routinely applied for permission to travel outside the territory for lifesaving treatments not available in Gaza, including chemotherapy.
Philadelphi Corridor, a band of land running the length of the border. Israel has refused to allow Hamas to resume management of the crossing, accusing it of smuggling weapons through tunnels under the border, though Egypt says it destroyed the tunnels from its side and stopped smuggling years ago.
present, as they were before 2007.
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