The EUBAM Rafah mission, redeployed on 31 January (see EUROPE B13571A41), supervised the departure from Gaza of several hundred people via the Rafah crossing point, a senior European official announced on Friday 7 February.
“Most of them need medical care and are going to hospital in Egypt”, sometimes accompanied by “companions and family”, a senior European official told a number of journalists, including Agence Europe. These people are approved by Hamas, the Israelis and Egypt.