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Many Germans are waiting to be able to leave the embattled Gaza Strip. Now, for the first time, a larger group can leave the war zone.
Berlin - More than 30 Germans were able to leave the embattled Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the German government. Among them are also families with children, the Foreign Office announced in the evening via X, formerly Twitter. The team of the German embassy in Cairo is now taking care of her, it said. "We are continuing our efforts and working intensively to ensure that more Germans can leave the country." At the same time, 34 French nationals were able to leave the Gaza Strip, according to the Foreign Ministry in Paris.
Already on Wednesday, German citizens were among the foreigners who were able to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt. These were a low single-digit number of female employees of international aid organizations. They were also met at the Rafah crossing by a team from the Cairo embassy.
Rafah is the only border crossing that is not controlled by Israel. On Wednesday, for the first time since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, hundreds of foreigners and Palestinians were able to leave the coastal strip, which is otherwise sealed off by Israel, for Egypt with a second passport.
Despite the Gaza war, there are still several thousand German citizens in the crisis region in the Middle East. According to the German Foreign Office last week, there were about 2700,490 Germans in Israel at the time. In the Gaza Strip, the Berlin ministry assumed a "low three-digit" number of people. In total, there are said to be about <> people in the Palestinian territories. However, only those German citizens who have voluntarily registered on a crisis preparedness list of the Federal Foreign Office are counted. Dpa