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A bus with 29 Spaniards on board travels the 300 kilometres that separate the Rafah crossing from Cairo for the last time on Wednesday night. They are the last people who were registered with the Consulate and who expressed their need to leave the Gaza Strip after Hamas attacked Israel and began a new Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
According to Foreign Ministry sources, "with the 29 Spanish-Palestinians and their families who have left Gaza today, the Foreign Ministry completes this phase of the evacuation for 143 registered workers". A process of exit from the Strip that began on November 1, when Israel and Egypt agreed to open the Rafah crossing to remove previously authorized people. Spain needed more than ten days of negotiations until the first group of nationals managed to leave. It was last Monday, when the first 40 civilians were evaluated. At that time, priority was given to the departure of families with minors and elderly people with illnesses. Yesterday, Tuesday, another 74 people left and with the 29 on Wednesday Spain ends the evacuation.
All of them have passed two border controls, one in Gaza and the other in Egypt, and then met with staff from the Spanish Embassy in Egypt, who placed them on buses and accompanied them to Cairo.
In the next few hours, the Ministry of Defence will send a plane to the Egyptian capital to bring citizens to Spain.
All of them will concentrate in Cairo, from where they will fly to Madrid in the next few hours.
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