MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. A doctor named Hazer, who has arrived at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport as part of a group of 103 evacuated Russian nationals, said that due to a lack of medicine and water, disease may spread in the Gaza Strip in the near future, a TASS correspondent reported.

"It is very scary there. About a hundred shells come down every minute. Of course, I was distressed to leave my home. I found out about the evacuation from my acquaintances, friends, colleagues. Russia sticks by us and we are grateful. I am a doctor and I would like to say that people are dying from hunger, and soon, disease will break out due to the shortage of medicine and water, something like cholera and skin diseases," he said. Hazer added that his relatives remain in the combat zone because, not being Russian citizens, they could not evacuate to Russia.

A woman with two children, who managed to reunite with her husband after he left for Russia before the onset of hostilities, was also among the evacuees. Her son, Karim, told journalists that "projectiles were flying everywhere, a projectile hit our neighbors’ house. We were hiding at our grandpa’s. A rocket also hit my uncle’s house. When I heard that rumble, I didn’t know where to hide."

Another doctor named Samir said that the wounded are being operated on without anesthesia and hospitals lack electric power. "I’ve been in Gaza for 13 years already. I was working at a hospital. Now there is no electricity, fuel or solar energy, and surgeries are performed without anesthesia," he said.

Earlier, on November 24, an Il-76 aircraft of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry landed in Domodedovo, having performed a special flight from Cairo, with 103 people, including 47 children on board. All of them have crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt via the Rafah checkpoint.

According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, in all, since the onset of the humanitarian operation, over 650 people, including 300 children, have been taken to Russia.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank as well. As reported earlier, Hamas and Israel had reached an agreement mediated by Qatar and Egypt on a four-day humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip.