People in Gaza feel forgotten after ‘ceasefire’
Only 20 people are able to leave the Gaza Strip every single day through the Rafah crossing.
We know that there are a lot of restrictions on Palestinians who leave and also on the Palestinians who return. We’ve heard a lot of testimonies from Palestinians returning to the Gaza Strip, saying that they were blindfolded, interrogated, and that the journey back to the Gaza Strip was definitely not easy.
People don’t really see change on the ground after the “ceasefire”. They are still waiting for humanitarian aid, and they still don’t have any source of income. Their tents are ruined and not suitable for them to continue the summer that is coming, after they have been flooded during the winter months.
So, a lot is going on, and people here feel that they are forgotten and nothing on the ground has been implemented since the “ceasefire” started.
A Palestinian child looks on as he stands next to a tent at a makeshift camp for displaced people during a dust storm in az-Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip, February 14
Rafah crossing must reopen for patients on ‘permanent and regular’ basis, Gaza’s Health Ministry says
Gaza’s Ministry of Health is demanding the “permanent and regular” opening of the Rafah land crossing with Egypt “in a way that guarantees the free movement of patients and the wounded without restrictions”.
More than 20,000 patients and wounded people are waiting to travel for treatment, and the partial operation of the Rafah crossing does not rise to the scale of the catastrophe, it said.
