Director the International Committee of the Red Cross office in Gaza Strip Mamadou Sue called Wednesday on the Egyptian authorities to facilitate the travel of Palestinian travelers via Rafah border crossing.
During a press conference following his visit to Rafah crossing Mamadou Sue described the humanitarian cases at the crossing as “painful.”
“I met several patients who waited for long years before being allowed to travel for medical treatment and students banned from travelling abroad although they possess valid passports and entry visas to western countries” he said.
“We call on Egyptian authorities to facilitate the patients and students’ access out” he urged.
It is a matter of life and death he said expressing hope that Rafah crossing will be permanently open.
The Egyptian authorities reopened on Wednesday the Rafah border-crossing on both sides so as to allow humanitarian cases’ access out of and into the blockaded Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on October 25 2014 leaving thousands of Gazans mostly humanitarian cases stranded on both sides of the Gaza-Egypt borders.
The Egyptian blockade along with a decade-long blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities on the coastal enclave have made life horrendous in the besieged territory.
