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Turkey plans to take 1,000 cancer patients in Gaza for treatment

Turkey and Egypt have agreed for around 1,000 cancer patients and other wounded civilians needing urgent care in Gaza to be sent to Turkey for treatment, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Sunday.

He added that work was underway to plan the move to bring patients from the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, the enclave's only cancer treatment hospital, which went out of service after running out of fuel this week.