Rafah crossing with Egypt is the one exit route from Gaza (File)

Jerusalem:

An Indian girl from Kashmir who had sought fast evacuation from the war-torn Hamas-ruled Gaza has safely reached Egypt with the assistance of Indian missions within the area, in response to her husband.

Lubna Nazir Shaboo and her daughter Karima, crossed the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza on Monday night.

“They are in al-Arish (a city in Egypt). Tomorrow morning (Tuesday) they will move to Cairo,” Lubna’s husband Nedal Toman stated in a textual content message despatched to PTI from Gaza.

The solely exit route from Gaza, the Rafah crossing with Egypt, has been occasionally opened the previous few weeks to let humanitarian provides enter Gaza and in addition let some international nationals and wounded folks cross over to the opposite aspect.

In a phone name to PTI on Sunday, Lubna confirmed that her identify was among the many individuals who may go away Gaza and thanked profusely the Indian missions within the area — in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Cairo — for making this attainable.

On October 10, Lubna had reached out to PTI over the telephone looking for assist for evacuation.

“We are facing a brutal war here and everything is being destroyed and bombarded in a matter of seconds,” she had informed PTI.

Following the unprecedented assaults by Hamas militants on October 7 within the southern areas of the Jewish state, Israel declared battle launching a counter-offensive with the dual goals of ousting Hamas, which has dominated the coastal Strip since 2007, and liberating round 240 individuals who had been taken hostage by the Islamic faction.

“The sounds of bombardment are too scary and the whole house shakes. It is a very, very scary situation,” Lubna had informed PTI earlier than transferring together with her household to the southern a part of Gaza the place she spent a number of days with acquaintances earlier than being evacuated.

She had talked about that their “water supply was officially cut off” in the midst of the night time of October 9 they usually had been with out electrical energy, which made them resolve to maneuver to the south and search assist in evacuation.

Lubna had additionally stated that she hadn’t seen something like this earlier than and had two households residing with them who needed to run away after bombardment within the bordering areas of Gaza.

“We are not able to go anywhere because there is no safe place for us anywhere and the Gaza Strip is too small and it is closed from every side. There are no exit points over here,” she stated.

“I have already asked for help from the Representative office of India in Ramallah to help me get to a safer place along with my husband and my daughter,” she had stated in a video message despatched to PTI.

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