The situation in the Gaza Strip, where Filipinos are waiting to dash to the Rafah Crossing on the first leg of their repatriation, is nail-biting.
“If the will recommend, and the President will direct us to fly our assets to where they should be, the airport of embarkation, then we will do it for the sake of our nation,” AFP spokesman Col. Medel Aguilar said. The aid – food, medicines, water purifiers, hygiene products and blankets – has been piling in Egypt’s Sinai region at El Arish airport, which even opened an extra landing strip to cope with deliveries.
Located in Egypt’s north Sinai, the Rafah Crossing is the sole border crossing between Gaza and Egypt and falls along a 12.8-kilometer fence that separates Gaza from the Sinai desert.For 13 days Israel has launched relentless air strikes on the Palestinian territory in retaliation for cross-border Hamas raids that killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot, mutilated or burnt to death.
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