Algeria requests emergency UN Security Council meeting on Palestine
According to the Algerian News Agency, Algeria has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss
Twenty-one cancer patients crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt on Thursday through the Kerem Shalomcrossing, a medical source in Egypt's El-Arish city said.
"They will be transported to the United Arab Emirates for treatment," the
source went on to add.
It is the first evacuation from Gaza since the Rafah border crossing was
closed in early May, when Israeli forces took over the Palestinian side of the
terminal.
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