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The World Health Organization will shortly evacuate 1,000 Gazan women and children from the war-devastated Palestinian territory for urgent medical care, according to the head of the WHO’s Europe branch, Hans Kluge. In an interview with AFP on Monday, Kluge said Israel “is committed to 1,000 more medical evacuations within the next months to the European Union”. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments in the crisis in the Middle East.