CAIRO, November 1. /TASS/. The first group of Gaza Strip residents in urgent need of medical aid has arrived by ambulance at the central hospital of el-Arish, the capital and largest city of Egypt’s North Sinai Governorate, the Extra News TV channel reported.

According to the media outlet, a group of Palestinians who earlier today had been taken to Egypt from Gaza via the Rafah border crossing "has been delivered to the el-Arish central hospital for treatment." Some time ago first ambulances, delivering the wounded from the Gaza Strip, arrived at the Rafah border checkpoint and crossed the border with Egypt.

Earlier, the Al-Qahera al-Ihbariya TV channel reported that dozens of ambulances had entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing in order to retrieve the first group of wounded or seriously ill Palestinians.

Earlier, a representative of the Rafah border checkpoint administration from the Palestinian side said that 81 wounded individuals would be taken to Egypt from Gaza for medical treatment via the checkpoint on November 1. This group of Gaza residents will be the first to be received by Egypt since renewed hostilities around the Palestinian enclave broke out in early October.

The wounded Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will be taken to a specially prepared hospital in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, which is located approximately 15 kilometers from the Rafah border crossing, and to the el-Arish central hospital. Depending on the severity of their wounds, the wounded Gazans may then be redirected to hospitals in Ismailia or Cairo.