RAFAH (PIC)– Thousands of Palestinian citizens are stranded on both sides of the Rafah crossing at the border line between Egypt and Gaza Strip which has been closed for more than 10 days.
The PA crossing authority spokesman warned against the continued closure of the Rafah crossing for more than ten days thus compounding the suffering of more than 50000 Palestinians trapped on both sides of the crossing. He appealed to the concerned parties to put pressure on the IOA to stop the policy of mass punishment against Palestinian civilians and to reopen the crossing.
The IOA had closed the Rafah crossing which is being supervised by international observers for a year and reopened it for emergency situations and patients but three months ago they reached an agreement with both the Palestinian and Egyptian sides binding it to open the crossing three days a week.
The spokesman also stated that the suffering of Palestinian citizens at the crossing points would get increasingly worse especially with the onset of June because of the advent of thousands of Palestinians especially students to spend the summer vacation with their relatives in Gaza.
The spokesman added that dozens of patients who are in critical cases or seriously wounded as a result of the recent unfortunate events are in need of treatment abroad and are awaiting the opening of the crossing. He explained that the Israeli entity neither admitted them to hospitals in the 1948 occupied lands nor allowed them to travel for treatment in the Egyptian hospitals.
