Egyptian Health, Solidarity Mins. arrive at Rafah border to follow up on aid entry into Gaza

CAIRO - 18 January 2025: The Egyptian Ministers of Health and Solidarity arrived Saturday morning at the Rafah crossing as part of the intensive Egyptian efforts to ensure the progress of the final preparations for the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, reported Al-Qahera TV News channel's correspondent. 

 

Earlier, an informed Egyptian source confirmed to Al-Qahera News that the Cairo meeting on implementing the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip had ended amid a positive atmosphere.

 

The source confirmed that all necessary arrangements had been agreed upon to implement the agreement, including the formation of a joint operations room in Cairo to follow up on the implementation of the procedures.

 

The source further indicated that the room includes representatives from Egypt, Palestine, Qatar, the United States and Israel, to ensure effective coordination and follow up on compliance with the terms of the agreement.

 

Egypt has opened the registration for doctors who wish to volunteer to treat the wounded and injured as a result of the Israeli aggression inside the Gaza Strip, announced Head of the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate Osama Abdel-Hay on Sunday.

“This initiative is part of the effort to compile lists of the required medical specialties, in line with the humanitarian and medical responsibilities that Egyptian doctors bear in supporting their Palestinian brothers,” he said in a press statement.

He noted that more than 2,000 are ready to volunteer and enter Gaza to treat the wounded. 

The ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel will come into force at 8:30 a.m. (Gaza’s local time) on Sunday, January 19, said Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesman Majed al Ansari on his X account on Satutday.

The ceasefire agreement was announced on January 15 to halt war in Gaza after nearly 15 months of suffering and violence that led to the killing of more than 46,788 Palestinian people by the Israeli occupation forces. The agreement was reached after tireless efforts exerted by the Egyptian, American, and Qatari mediation.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza on January 16, 2025, the death toll of the Palestinians due to the Israeli genocidal bombings reached 46,788 martyrs and 110,453 injured since October 7, 2023.

The Ministry said previously that that a total of 4,500 Palestinians suffer from amputations of upper or lower limbs in the Strip since the beginning of the war, including about 800 children and 540 women.

Meanwhile, Israeli army announced on January 13, 2025 that 840 soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war, 405 of them since the beginning of the ground offensive in Gaza. Additionally, 2566 officers and soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the ground operation in Gaza, including 495 seriously injured. A total of 5617 officers and soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, including 833 seriously injured.