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Leading last night’s coverage was the news that the first group of foreign nations and wounded Gazan residents crossed the border into Egypt.
Injured Palestinians and foreign nationals cross into Egypt, as a convoy of 100 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip: More than 360 foreign passport holders and 45 injured Gazans made it through the Rafah crossing yesterday, in addition to 100 aid trucks going the other way, Al Qahera News (watch, runtime: 5:05), Masaa DMC (watch, runtime: 4:00), and Hadith fi Misr (watch, runtime: 3:05) reported. Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told Al Hayah Al Youm’s Mohamed Sherdy that the injured were sent to hospitals in Bir al-Abd, Al Arish, and Sheikh Zuweid and a field hospital was also at the ready (watch, runtime: 9:47).
The situation in Gaza remains dire: Israel’s assault has reached its most “severe and harshest stage” in terms of the level of attacks by the Israeli military and the humanitarian crises that face Gazans, Palestinian Red Crescent Abdul Jalil Al Hanjal told Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 4:39). “Hospitals and primary care centers are gradually going out of service in Gaza due to a lack of supplies, fuel, and energy,” Gaza Red Cross spokesman HIsham Mhanna told Masaa DMC (watch, runtime: 4:35). Mhanna added that “we were able to send six aid trucks through the Rafah crossing on Friday and are working on distributing it to the central hospitals in Gaza, while we are completely unable to deliver any of it to the hospitals in the north.”
The West isn’t interested in peace: “The United States, United Kingdom, and the Western countries do not want to stop the war,” Ahmed Moussa told his viewers on Sada El Balad (watch, runtime: 3:21).
Elections 2023: “If I ever become president, I will work for the recovery of the Egyptian economy within 3 months, I will ensure good relations with Turkey and Iran, and I will work to mobilize the international position to resolve the GERD crisis,” presidential candidate and head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party Farid Zahran told Hadith fi Misr (watch, runtime: 4:32 | 3:08 | 3:10).
