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Efforts to resume the evacuation of injured Gazans and foreign citizens through the Rafah border crossing were continuing on Sunday, Egyptian officials said.
It comes as the UN presses for more aid to be allowed in to help Palestinians trapped amid Israel's bombardment and siege of the enclave.
Evacuations were suspended after an Israeli strike on Friday hit an ambulance in Gaza being used to transport injured people to the crossing, the officials said.
The Israeli military claimed the vehicle was carrying Hamas militants.
Israel launched its war on Gaza after the Hamas killed about 1,400 people, mainly clivilians, in southern Israel on October 7. Nearly 10,000 people have since been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, most of them civilians, and 25,000 injured, according to Palestinian authorities.
The evacuations from Rafah, the only exit point from Gaza not controlled by Israel, to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula began last Wednesday as part of a deal brokered by regional states, with the involvement of Israel and Hamas.
But the Gazan border authority on Sunday did not publish its daily list of foreign citizens and dependents approved to leave the enclave.
Egyptian officials told The National that Hamas suspended the evacuation of foreign citizens over Israel's refusal to allow fuel to enter Gaza from Egypt and because of what they said was stringent vetting by Israeli officials of the lists of injured to be moved to Egypt.
The officials said Hamas wanted more injured to cross into Egypt for treatment, as well as guarantees for their safety while travelling to the border crossing.
Cairo is reluctant to take in large numbers of Palestinians without guarantees from the US and Israel that they would be allowed to return to Gaza when they have recovered, the officials said.
A senior US official said Washington hoped the crossing would open on Sunday.
Aid lorries were still able to travel into the territory, two Egyptian sources told Reuters.
The UN has said $1.2 billion will be needed to meet aid requirements in the coastal enclave until the end of the year.
On Saturday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that “the humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrific”, repeating his call for an immediate ceasefire.
Slow Israeli approvals of aid to Gaza, following lorry inspections at the Rafah crossing, mean that, at best, about 100 lorries a day are entering the enclave.
Mr Guterres previously said Gaza required at least 500 lorries of supplies a day in peacetime, albeit during an Israeli blockade that became an almost complete siege following Hamas's October 7 attack in southern Israel.
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Palestinians cry as they walk away after an area hit by Israeli missiles in Rafah, the Gaza Strip. AP -
Palestinians with foreign passports wait for permission to leave Gaza at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Reuters -
A Palestinian boy pushes a man on a wheelchair past debris in Rafah. AFP -
A paramedic holds an injured bird as he searches through buildings destroyed during Israeli air raids in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Getty Images -
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A man listens for any potential sounds of life following an Israeli air strike on the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. AFP -
People flee after Israeli air strikes on the Maghazi refugee camp. AFP -
An Israeli soldier arranges artillery shells near the border with the Gaza Strip. AFP -
Relatives and friends of those kidnapped during the October 7 Hamas attack hold photos of their loved ones during a protest calling for their return outside Israel's parliament. AP -
Israeli flares illuminate the sky over west Gaza in the northern Gaza Strip. EPA -
Smoke rises from northern Gaza after Israeli pounded the besieged enclave. AFP -
Ambulances queue at the Rafah border as they wait to cross into Gaza to transport the injured back to Egypt for treatment. Getty Images -
Women cry as one of them holds an injured toddler outside Shuhada Al Aqsa hospital after an Israeli bombardment of Deir Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. AFP -
Displaced Palestinian children sit in a makeshift shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the Israel-Gaza war. Reuters -
Israeli soldiers patrol outside a house destroyed during fighting with Hamas militants, in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza. Bloomberg -
Palestinians from Bureij refugee camp use Salah Al Din street as they flee the southern Gaza Strip. AP -
Palestinian children clean up outside their home after Israel struck Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. AP -
Khan Younis residents search through buildings destroyed during Israeli air raids. Getty Images -
People take part in a candlelight vigil in Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv. Getty Images -
Demonstrators rally in support of Palestinians in Denver, Colorado. AFP -
Galya David, the mother of hostage Evyatar David, takes part in the 'Bring them home' event organised by the Greek Israeli Community in Athens. EPA -
Lebanese parademics show the blood-stained high-vis jackets of four of their colleagues wounded after their ambulances were hit in a strike on the Lebanese town of Tayr Harfa. AFP -
Flares are dropped by Israeli forces above Gaza, as seen from Sderot, near the border with the Palestinian enclave. AFP -
Israeli forces at a position along the the border with Gaza. AFP -
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors at Magazi refugee camp in Gaza after an Israeli air strike. Reuters -
Leaflets are dropped by the Israeli army over Gaza city asking people to evacuate towards the south of the Palestinian enclave. AFP -
An injured toddler awaits treatment at the emergency ward of Al-Shifa Hospital following an Israeli strike, in Gaza city. AFP -
A Palestinian man wails amid a search for casualties after an Israeli strike on houses, at Magazi refugee camp, Gaza. Reuters -
Anadolu news agency cameraman Mohammed El Aloul pictured after several of his children and siblings were killed in Israeli strikes. Reuters -
Israeli soldiers walk past debris and damaged buildings at a location given as Gaza by Israel's military. Reuters -
Protesters rally outside the White House in support of Palestinians in Gaza, Washington. Reuters -
A man mourns after losing relatives following an Israeli air strike in Gaza city. AP -
An art installation of prams with the faces of kidnapped children on display in Tel Aviv. Getty Images -
An Israeli woman calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. AP -
A Palestinian man stands on a collapsed building following a strike by the Israeli military on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP -
Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on a residential building in Khan Younis. Reuters -
Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023. AFP -
A Palestinian woman sits in the rubble as rescuers look for her relatives following the Israeli bombardment of Khan Younis. AFP -
Smoke rises from Gaza as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas continues. Reuters -
Mourners at the funeral of Druze Israeli Lt Col Salman Habaka in the village of Yanuh Jat, northern Israel. AP -
A Palestinian boy pulled from the rubble of a building following an Israeli air attack on Bureij refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip. AP -
A survivor calls from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis following Israeli air attacks. EPA -
People wait on the Egyptian side of the border after passing the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. EPA -
Pro-Palestinian supporters during a demonstration near a US military transport vessel at the Port of Oakland in California. AP
Mr Guterres, however, has faced criticism from Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, who said he needed to show stronger leadership.
“These dark times require a strong leader. As people in Gaza face the risk of genocide, I implore you to take strong action for (1) immediate ceasefire, (2) humanitarian aid, (3) release of hostages/arbitrarily detained persons, (4) oPt protective presence,” she wrote on X.
The latter refers to the UN’s mandate to protect civilian life in conflicts, using an acronym for the occupied Palestinian territories.
It comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is engaged in a regional tour, as Washington faces mounting criticism for what has been regarded as a deferential position on Israel’s bombardment and siege of Gaza.
Mr Blinken met Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in Amman on Saturday.
They discussed the need for UNRWA and its “essential humanitarian mission” in Gaza, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
Mr Blinken acknowledged the critical work of UNRWA staff and conveyed his sorrow for the 72 staff who have been killed since the war began.
More than 1.5 million people have been displaced and about 600,000 are crowded in shelters run by the UN. The US says about 400,000 people remain in Gaza city as Israeli forces move through the enclave, cutting off the northern, most densely populated districts.
Heavy aerial bombardment continues in support of an Israeli ground incursion, with significant civilian casualties.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that 51 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli bombardment of Gaza's Al Maghazi camp on Saturday night.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al Qidra said a large number of people were killed, without giving an exact figure.
Earlier, Hamas reported on its Telegram channel that Israel was “directly bombing citizens' homes” in Al Maghazi.
“Women, children and newborns in Gaza are disproportionately bearing the burden of the escalation of hostilities in the occupied Palestinian territory, both as casualties and in reduced access to health services,” the UN children's fund warned on Saturday.
“The bombardments, damaged or non-functioning health facilities, massive levels of displacement, collapsing water and electricity supplies as well as restricted access to food and medicines, are severely disrupting maternal, newborn, and child health services.
"There are an estimated 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, with more than 180 giving birth every day. Fifteen per cent of them are likely to experience pregnancy or birth-related complications and need additional medical care."
With reporting from agencies
