Gaza [Palestine], February 6: Twenty-five more Palestinians have returned to Gaza through the Rafah crossing following its long-awaited partial reopening, describing an exhausting journey through humiliating Israeli security measures, while patients in need of urgent medical treatment abroad are being transferred to the border.
This comes as one Palestinian was killed and another injured by Israeli forces on Thursday, as Israeli attacks continue despite a "ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli troops shot and killed a man near the Bani Suhaila roundabout, east of Khan Younis, while in central Khan Younis, near the Abu Hamid roundabout, a 28-year-old woman was injured by Israeli forces' gunfire inside her tent, sources told Al Jazeera.
The group of 25 Gaza returnees - the third batch to return since the heavily restricted reopening of the Rafah crossing - entered the Strip at 3am local time (01:00 GMT), with buses delivering them to Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis more than 20 hours after they left the Egyptian city of El Arish.
Hours later, a group of seven Palestinian patients, accompanied by 14 family members, were transferred from a hospital towards the crossing for medical treatment abroad.
Some of the returnees, visibly fatigued from their ordeal, told an Al Jazeera team in Gaza that they had been interrogated and insulted by Israeli forces as they passed through security controls.
Source: Qatar Tribune
