400 people with American citizenship arrived today (Thursday) at the Rafah land crossing on board several buses coming from Gaza, in a new batch of foreign nationals being evacuated from the besieged Strip, according to an Egyptian security source.

The source told Xinhua News Agency that 400 people with American citizenship arrived today at the Rafah crossing on board several buses from Gaza.

Yesterday, Egypt received through the Rafah crossing a first batch of foreign nationals in Gaza, amounting to about 345 people.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed earlier today that there is a plan to receive and evacuate 7,000 people holding the nationalities of more than 60 countries from Gaza through the Rafah crossing.

The Gaza Strip, with a population of 2.3 million people, has been suffering under the weight of continuous Israeli air strikes for the 27th day after the attack by Hamas fighters on southern Israel, which killed about 1,400 people, according to Israeli statistics. While the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that 9,061 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israel’s attacks so far.