{"id":273456,"date":"2026-02-04T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/273456\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:45:07","slug":"un-chief-urges-gaza-aid-as-israel-blocks-most-medical-evacuees-at-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/273456\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief urges Gaza aid as Israel blocks most medical evacuees at Rafah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN- United Nations chief Antonio Guterres again has called on Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli authorities continue to\u00a0block dozens of Palestinians\u00a0from exiting the war-ravaged enclave to seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres made the appeal on Tuesday, as more than 100 sick and injured Palestinians congregated at the newly reopened Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, hoping to access medical care abroad, Al Jazeera reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also call for the facilitation of rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief at scale \u2013 including through the Rafah crossing,\u201d Guterres said during an address at UN headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Raed al-Nims, spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), says the organization was informed o Wednesday morning that the evacuation of patients and wounded via the\u00a0Rafah crossing\u00a0has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, a few minutes ago, we were \u2026 informed that the evacuation process for today has been cancelled,\u201d he told Al Jazeera from Khan Younis.<\/p>\n<p>He said the procedure should have seen sick and wounded arrive at the Red Cross Society hospital for preliminary medical checkups before being transferred by ambulance to the Rafah crossing, then to Egyptian hospitals or elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN- United Nations chief Antonio Guterres again has called on Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6603,9150,85,46,43,22078],"class_list":{"0":"post-273456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-antonio-guterres","9":"tag-gaza-aid","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-rafah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}