The #US embassy in #Israel has said it has offered Americans + their immediate relatives evacuation by sea.

Those eligible will leave from the port city of #Haifa for #Cyprus on Monday.
'Entry requirements can be found here: https://mfa.gov.cy/visa-information.html
Those wanting to board will be asked to sign a n agreement to repay the US govt

Meanwhile the UK Foreign Office is telling British nationals in #Gaza to prepare in case the #Rafah border crossing into #Egypt is opened:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67114394

In #Egypt, an aid convoy has been waiting for hours to enter #Gaza through the #Rafah crossing.

In recent days the checkpoint has been closed due to #Israel's aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip which has reportedly damaged the #Palestinian side of the crossing.

This has prevented people from leaving or entering Gaza through the checkpoint. It also means aid has been held up at the border, and aid agencies have urged authorities to let their convoys through.

The conditions in #Gaza are "fast becoming untenable," #UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said. "I fear that the worst is yet to come Humanity is failing."

So far at least five planes carrying humanitarian relief have arrived in Egypt's Sinai, Red Cross #ICRC officials said.

The #WHO said a plane carrying trauma medicines and health supplies had also landed.

Al Arish airport on #Sinai is about 45 km from the Gaza border, but the #Rafah crossing with #Egypt remains closed.
#Israel #hamas

It has passed 9 AM in #Israel and #Gaza - a quick recap:
#US is in talks with #Israel , the #UN and #Egypt on allowing aid into #Gaza , and providing safe passage out of the territory for some residents. #Blinken is due to land in Israel

Israel has massed troops near the Gaza border, which includes about 300,000 #reservist forces. It is still unclear if and when it plans to launch a ground offensive inside Gaza
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#BBCNews - #Egypt warned #Israel days before #Hamas struck, US committee chairman says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67082047

at the moment, no crossings into #Gaza are functioning.

All the crossings into #Israel have been closed since #Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel on Saturday.

Until yesterday, the #Rafah crossing between Gaza and #Egypt was operating.

On Sunday, it was open for goods and about 200 trucks of food, fuel and construction materials were allowed in, acc to OCHA

US Sec of State #Blinken is on his way to #Israel . He told reporters before getting on the plane that the US would give Israel "everything it needed

The US is also working with Israel and #Egypt on a potential safe passage for some civilians, the White House said

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has called for essential supplies of food, fuel and water to be allowed to reach civilians in #Gaza and said a "rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access" was needed

From #BBC Monitoring colleagues:

Third strike reported on border crossing between #Gaza and #Egypt - in some #Arabic media

Fears in Egypt of a possible Gaza exodus

An aid convoy is said to have been turned back from the #Egyptian border

#Qatar For Min says it is too early to talk about direct mediation

#Doha, Cairo and Ankara said to have been talking to Hamas acc to AlArabiya

The US is boosting military aid to #Israel - the first plane carrying US arms arrived in southern Israel on Tuesday evening

Josep Borrell, the EU's High Rep for Foreign Affairs,said #Israel 's response in #Gaza may have breached international law. "Israel has the right to defend [itself], but it has to be done according to the right of international law, humanitarian law," he said

The US says it is discussing with Israel and #Egypt about trying to get "safe passage" for Gaza civilians.

Not all doctors thought dry, old mummies made the best medicine. Some doctors believed that fresh meat and blood had a vitality the long-dead lacked.
The claim that fresh was best convinced even the noblest of nobles. England’s King Charles II took medication made from human skulls after suffering a seizure, and, until 1909, physicians commonly used human skulls to treat neurological conditions.
For the royal and social elite, eating mummies seemed a royally appropriate medicine , as doctors claimed mumia was made from pharaohs. Royalty ate royalty.

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