Over 360 foreigners including Japanese evacuate from Gaza to Egypt

Over 360 foreign passport holders were evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Egypt on Wednesday, according to local media, as Israeli bombardments of the area intensified in the war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas.Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said Thursday in Tokyo that all 10 Japanese nationals and their eight family members who were hoping to leave the Hamas-ruled, Israeli-besieged Palestinian enclave have arrived in Egypt by land.Egyptian state media and others reported that 361 foreign passport holders and 46 wounded left Gaza for Egypt through the Rafah crossing, in …READ FULL ARTICLE