ANKARA: Greater than 100 evacuees from Gaza are set to reach in Türkiye on Monday (Nov 20), together with dozens of people that will obtain medical remedy there, Türkiye’s well being minister and a overseas ministry supply mentioned.
Sixty-one sufferers, accompanied by some 49 kinfolk, arrived in Egypt from Gaza on Sunday night and had been scheduled to fly to Ankara on Monday morning after spending the night time at Al Arish hospital, Well being Minister Fahrettin Koca mentioned.
He mentioned final week that Ankara needed to carry as most of the practically 1,000 most cancers sufferers from Gaza to Türkiye as potential. The primary 27 sufferers arrived in Ankara final Thursday.
Individually, a bunch of 87 folks, consisting of Turks, Turkish Cypriots and their kinfolk, arrived in Egypt from Gaza on Sunday and was set to fly to Istanbul on Monday night, a overseas ministry supply mentioned.
Forty-four Turks who travelled from Gaza to Egypt on the weekend arrived in Istanbul on Sunday, media studies mentioned.
The overseas ministry supply additionally mentioned that if circumstances on the bottom allow, Türkiye aimed to get round 100 extra folks out of Gaza on Monday.
A month in the past, Turkish Deputy International Minister Ahmet Yildiz mentioned some 700 folks, together with Turkish, Palestinian, and northern Cypriot residents, had utilized to Türkiye to be evacuated from Gaza.
Round 300 of them had been Turkish residents.