Twenty-one critically ill children were evacuated from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 27, the first medical evacuation since the besieged enclave's sole travel crossing was shut down in early May. Since the Rafah border crossing is closed, these young patients will exit through the Kerem Shalom border crossing. The children's parents said they can't travel with their sons and daughters, and they don't yet know where their children will receive treatment.

Muhammad Zaqout, principal of Nasser Hospital, told CGTN that there are currently more than 25,000 patients in Gaza who need to go abroad for treatment, including nearly 1,000 children with cancer, and the Kerem Shalom border crossing is not enough. "We all the time need to open the Rafah border crossing to treat our patients because it is the safe way and it is the ordinary way which worked before," he said.