The French hospital ship Dixmude has completed her mission

The French hospital ship Dixmude has completed its mission, the Ministry of the Armed Forces told Franceinfo on Friday 26 January. The helicopter carrier, stationed in the Egyptian port of Bandar al-Arish, about fifty kilometers from the Palestinian territory, has been mobilized since late November to treat wounded citizens of Gaza. Dixmude must leave port “by the end of the week”The Ministry assures.

About 120 seriously injured people were treated aboard the ship, which docked in Egypt on November 27.. “About 1,000 medical procedures were carried out” On the Dixmud ship, the ministry said. In an interview with Radio France on January 22, Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu revealed that “Now arises the question of another day” Converted to a hospital for a helicopter carrier. According to him, “There is no question of abandoning this state of the nation’s health infrastructure to allow the treatment of citizens.” The minister expressed his willingness to offer Emmanuel Macron’s Egypt “A hospitable offer, always accompanied by military assistance (…) not on a dock on a boat, but on land”.

On the 112th day of the war, the humanitarian situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave continues to deteriorate. On Thursday, Hamas announced a new toll of 25,900 people killed in the Gaza Strip, most of them women, children and teenagers.