21 children to leave Gaza in first medical evacuation since early May
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Health officials say thousands of people need medical treatment abroad, including hundreds of urgent cases.
Twenty-one critically ill children are due to leave Gaza later in the first medical evacuation since the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down in early May, Palestinian officials said.