(27 Jun 2024)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 27 June 2024
1. Various of sick and injured children waiting to leave for treatment abroad
2. Various of families walking towards buses
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Abu Zahri, father of Palestinian girl with severe burns:
"My daughter has second and third-level burns, on the thighs, chest, neck, and head, and needs a skin graft."
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Yassin, mother of sick Palestinian child:
"He has leukemia. He was diagnosed with marrow failure, and needs a test, chemotherapy, or a marrow transplant."
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Al-Majaida, mother of sick Palestinian child:
"My daughter has leukemia, and her treatment was stopped at the beginning of the war. We applied for treatment abroad and she will leave through the Kerem Shalom crossing for treatment."
6. Various of children
7. Various of families boarding buses
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Mohammed Zaqout, head of Gaza’s hospitals:
"This method is not and will not be an alternative to the Rafah crossing. We call on our brothers in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the free people of the world to apply pressure to help the patients in the Gaza Strip to exit and to reopen the Rafah crossing to allow them to go out for treatment."
9. Various of buses and ambulances carrying patients and their relatives leaving Nasser Hospital
STORYLINE:
FAMILY MEMBERS PREPARE TO SAY A TEARFUL GOODBYE TO THEIR CRITICALLY ILL CHILDREN.
THEY ARE FINALLY LEAVING THE NASSER HOSPITAL AND ON THEIR WAY OUT OF GAZA.
IT’S THE FIRST MEDICAL EVACUATION SINCE THE SOLE CROSSING WAS SHUT DOWN IN EARLY M AY.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Abu Zahri, father of Palestinian girl with severe burns:
"My daughter has second and third-level burns, on the thighs, chest, neck, and head, and needs a skin graft."
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Yassin, mother of sick Palestinian child:
"He has leukemia. He was diagnosed with marrow failure, and needs a test, chemotherapy, or a marrow transplant."
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Al-Majaida, mother of sick Palestinian child:
"My daughter has leukemia, and her treatment was stopped at the beginning of the war. We applied for treatment abroad and she will leave through the Kerem Shalom crossing for treatment."
THE 19 CHILDREN ARE ON THEIR WAY TO THE KEREM SHALOM CARGO CROSSING WITH ISRAEL.
ISRAELI AUTHORITIES SAY THEY WILL RECEIVE TREATMENT IN EGYPT AND ABROAD.
THE HEAD OF GAZA’S HOSPITALS SAY THE EVACUATION HAS BEEN COORDINATED WITH THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND THREE AMERICAN CHARITIES.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Mohammed Zaqout, head of Gaza’s hospitals:
"This is not and will not be an alternative to the Rafah crossing. We call on our brothers in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the free people of the world to apply pressure to help the patients in the Gaza Strip to exit and to reopen the Rafah crossing to allow them to go out for treatment."
PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS SAY OVER 25,000 PATIENTS NEED TREATMENT ABROAD. 980 OF THOSE ARE CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND HUNDREDS NEED “URGENT AND IMMEDIATE EVACUATION.”
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