bmj;383/nov29_4/p2799/FAF1faKhaled Elfiqi/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockEgyptian Red Crescent Society employees and volunteers organise humanitarian aid, including medical supplies, food, and water, bound for Palestinians in Gaza, at a warehouse in the city of Arish, Sinai, last week.The medical supplies include chlorine tablets that can purify drinking water and surgery kits that are used to treat people with wounds sustained in conflict. The kits can be used to treat between 1000 and 5000 people, depending on the severity of their injuries.More than 5500 Palestinians and 1400 Israelis have been killed, according to the Israel Defence Forces and Palestinian health ministry, after an attack by Hamas militants on Israel on 7 October and the retaliatory Israeli operations in the occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank.
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