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Source: CCTV.com | 12-30-2008 09:24

Special Report:   Israel airstrikes in Gaza

Egyptian paramedics have managed to take wounded Palestinians from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing.

This is the latest in Egypt's efforts to lend a helping hand to its neighbor.

Wounded Palestinians are treated on the floor of Kamal Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli air strike on the nearby Jabalia refugee camp. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
Wounded Palestinians are treated on the floor of Kamal
Edwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip
following an Israeli air strike on the nearby Jabalia
refugee camp. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

On Monday afternoon, Egyptian ambulances took some 25 casualties from Israel's heavy air strikes of the Gaza Strip.

The operation was carried out with a large military presence looking on as soldiers patrolled both sides of the border gates.

Meanwhile, Hamas has said it was difficult getting them to the border because of the ongoing Israeli strikes.

 

Editor:Zhang Pengfei