IPalestinian and international doctors on Tuesday called for the evacuation of 25,000 wounded and sick people from the Gaza Strip to hospitals in East Jerusalem through the humanitarian corridor between the two areas.

This came at a press conference they held at Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem, with the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip and the outage of most hospitals.

Doctors said it was estimated that 25,000 people in Gaza needed life-saving medical care because of their serious condition.

They also demanded their evacuation from Gaza to East Jerusalem hospitals.

They outlined three main measures to address the crisis: “First, establish safe medical evacuation corridors to secure routes for patients to hospitals in East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank or third countries.”

The second measure is “ending family separation by ensuring that families stay together during treatment,” and third, “supporting the right of evacuated Palestinians to return to their homes in Gaza after receiving medical care, without having to choose between their health and their homeland.”
Dr Rick Peppercorn, representative of the World Health Organization, stressed the importance of facilitating humanitarian access, noting “the urgent need for medical supplies, the evacuation of patients, and allowing humanitarian teams into Gaza to provide life-saving care.”

After the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt was closed last May following Israel’s control of the Palestinian side of the crossing, the sick and wounded can no longer be transferred from the Gaza Strip to the outside of the Strip.

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip suffer from shortages of medicines and treatment due to the Israeli war of genocide and the resulting lack of care supplies, the killing of medical staff, and the targeting of ambulances.