Moscow is working with Israeli, Egyptian authorities and Palestinian representatives to ensure that Russian citizens can leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah checkpoint. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters about this. RIA News.
“From the very beginning of this crisis, we have been working with all parties involved, Israelis, Palestinians and Egyptians, to remove our citizens from the Rafah checkpoint. Therefore, if there is progress there, I will be very happy about it,” he said.
On November 1, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, referring to Russians trapped in the Palestinian area, wrote that Russian citizens wrote: denied We passed through the Rafah checkpoint and crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip. According to one of them, UN employees and citizens of Jordan, Moldova, Austria and African countries passed through the checkpoint.
The other day, the representative office of the Russian Federation to the Palestinian National Authority reported the number of Russian citizens awaiting evacuation from the Gaza Strip. exceeded There are 500 people on the list of those declared evacuated, more than 900 in total.
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