CAIRO, November 7. /TASS/. More than 500 foreigners have arrived at the Rafah checkpoint on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, the Al-Qahera Al-Ekhbariya channel said on Tuesday.

It did not say what nationalities were represented.

Apart from that, according to the television channel, around 35 trucks with humanitarian aid for Palestinians are ready to cross into the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian health ministry said that it had taken in 12 children with cancer from the enclave. They have already been examined and sent to specialized children’s hospitals.

According to the Al-Youm as-Sabia news portal, at least 1,400 foreigners have been evacuated from Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.