The Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement that allowing a limited number of people to leave does not meet the urgent needs of patients in light of difficult health and humanitarian conditions, noting that only 29 patients were able to leave on Tuesday through the Rafah land crossing, while 20 patients left on Monday for hospitals in Jordan.
Patients are usually transported via the King Hussein Bridge to Jordan for treatment, according to Jordan's Al-Mamlaka TV, without further details.
The ministry added that thousands of patients and wounded people registered on waiting lists to travel for treatment abroad are still waiting to be allowed to leave, stressing that "the small number of patients leaving does not meet the urgent need for travel of those on the lists who are suffering from difficult health and humanitarian conditions with the worsening health crisis in the sector."
The Ministry of Health called on the relevant authorities to expedite the medical evacuation procedures for these patients and to enable their safe access to specialized hospitals outside the Gaza Strip.
Since the crossing was reopened, about 700 patients have been able to leave the Gaza Strip to receive treatment abroad, while more than 18,000 patients and wounded people are still waiting for medical evacuation, according to previous statements by the spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Raed Al-Nims, to the government-run “Voice of Palestine” radio station.
On February 2, Israel reopened the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, which it has occupied since May 2014, in a very limited manner and with very strict restrictions.
Since the reopening of the Rafah crossing, those returning to Gaza have reported being subjected to Israeli harassment, including detention and harsh interrogation lasting for hours, before being allowed to continue their journey to the Strip.
Before the war of extermination, hundreds of Palestinians used to leave Gaza daily through the crossing, and hundreds of others would return to the Strip in a normal movement. The mechanism of work at the crossing was subject to the Ministry of Interior in Gaza and the Egyptian side, without Israeli interference.
Israel was supposed to reopen the crossing in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, which came into effect on October 10, 2025, but it reneged on that.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian was killed and others were injured on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire targeting various areas in the Gaza Strip.
A medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital reported the death of the young man Badr Khalil Ahl, and the injury of 4 others with varying wounds, as a result of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a civilian vehicle in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in the center of Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses pointed out that a missile from an Israeli drone targeted a civilian vehicle near the Palestine intersection in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, resulting in one martyr and a number of injuries.
In the Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City, four Palestinians were injured, one critically, after an Israeli suicide drone targeted a gathering of civilians, according to medical sources at theBaptist Hospital.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, two Palestinian fishermen were wounded by Israeli naval gunfire off the coast of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israel’s continued violations of the ceasefire agreement since October 2025 have resulted in the deaths of 877 Palestinians and injuries to 2,602 others.
With American support, the Israeli occupation army launched a genocide in Gaza on October 8, 2023, which lasted two years, leaving more than 72,000 martyrs and more than 172,000 wounded Palestinians, and widespread destruction affecting 90% of the civilian infrastructure
