Israel facilitates medical evacuations for 1,000-plus Gazans to 13 countries

In the past few months, 23 groups totaling 1,055 patients and caregivers have left the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing to receive medical treatment in 13 countries abroad, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s COGAT unit said on Wednesday.

These include 127 patients, mostly children, and escorts who were evacuated from Gaza on Tuesday to receive medical care in the United Arab Emirates, in an operation that was coordinated with the UAE and the World Health Organization.

“The State of Israel is thankful for the UAE’s leadership of this important humanitarian project, as it is for all the humanitarian efforts the UAE and other organizations advanced in Gaza since the start of the war,” COGAT said.

COGAT highlighted its multilateral efforts on Wednesday with the international community in Gaza in the past year to aid the population, including a polio vaccination campaign with UNICEF, with 559,000 children in Gaza immunized in two rounds.

In another X post on Wednesday, COGAT posted footage last week of medical supplies given by Israel to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza with COGAT noting that since then, more medical supplies, fuel and a generator have been delivered to the facility.

“We continuously facilitate humanitarian aid, including all kinds of medical supplies into and across Gaza,” COGAT said.