OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada said 234 Canadians, permanent residents and their eligible family members have crossed from Gaza into Egypt Sunday.
The update came as the Rafah crossing reopened after a two-day closure, allowing foreign nationals to flee the war-torn territory.
The list is compiled in co-ordination with the Egyptian and Israeli governments, but had not been updated as of Sunday. She said her father retired last year and was spending time in Gaza with his aging mother before war broke out between Israel and Hamas last month. He had unsuccessfully tried to cross the border five times before finally making it out on Sunday.
The Egyptian government is allowing those who cross the Rafah border to stay in the country for up to 72 hours. The escalating fighting centred around Gaza's largest hospital on Sunday. Health officials and people trapped inside the Shifa hospital rejected Israel's claims that it was helping babies and others evacuate the building, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out.
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