Since the armed conflict between Israel and the radical Palestinian movement Hamas began on October 7, 750 Russian citizens have left the Gaza Strip through the checkpoint on the Egyptian border. This was announced by Roman Okhotenko, director of the information policy department of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. RIA News.
According to him, on November 24, the seventh evacuation plane from Cairo landed at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. 103 people, 47 of whom were children, were carried in the vehicle.
In total, 656 people have arrived in Russia since the start of the evacuation, and 750 people have passed through the Rafah checkpoint on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, in the last 24 hours a group of 101 Russians passed the checkpoint and headed towards the Egyptian capital.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Russians who previously fled the Gaza Strip said about life in a war zone.