A Palestinian youth lying in an ambulance for treatment gestures as he lies on a gurney after crossing from the Gaza Strip to enter the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave following evacuation on December 18. — AFP
A Palestinian youth lying in an ambulance for treatment gestures as he lies on a gurney after crossing from the Gaza Strip to enter the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave following evacuation on December 18. — AFP

Travellers crossing from the Gaza Strip enter the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave following their evacuation on December 18. — AFP
Travellers crossing from the Gaza Strip enter the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave following their evacuation on December 18. — AFP

Travellers crossing from the Gaza Strip enter the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave following their evacuation on December 18. — AFP
Travellers crossing from the Gaza Strip enter the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave following their evacuation on December 18. — AFP

A man holds a blanket beside a truck carrying aid at the Rafah border in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18. — Reuters
A man holds a blanket beside a truck carrying aid at the Rafah border in the southern Gaza Strip, December 18. — Reuters

Mervat Salha, the grandmother of Palestinian baby girl Mariam who was born during the fighting between Israel and Hamas, holds her outside a tent where they shelter with their displaced family who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 17. — Reuters
Mervat Salha, the grandmother of Palestinian baby girl Mariam who was born during the fighting between Israel and Hamas, holds her outside a tent where they shelter with their displaced family who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 17. — Reuters

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