RAFAH, Egypt - Greek anesthesiologist Dimitrios Mognie and another doctor arrived at this border crossing loaded with medical supplies to help Gazans wounded in the Israeli offensive. Instead, they have waited at the border for days.

On Tuesday, a representative from a Norwegian medical aid organization was allowed to enter the Gaza Strip from Rafah. But most doctors have been denied entry by Egyptian authorities and spend their days drinking tea and coffee at a small, dusty cafe near the crossing's metal gates.

Honestly I would imagine a shortage of anesthesiologists is the least of their worries

Originally posted by ladysharrowandherbarrow
i did read this a few days ago and it was also picked up or first reported by the BBC.

Egypt has blamed Hamas for not letting hundreds of Palestinians wounded by Israeli air strikes to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment, with dozens of empty ambulances waiting on the border

Egypt says Hamas not allowing wounded to leave Gaza


jam321 "However, notice how the world community is real silent on Egypt's role in all of this debacle"

I think that there is quite a bit of reporting regarding egypt.. i have been reading about it in the newspapers

eg

Rob ert Fisk: The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act

Obstetrician Jemilah Mahmood, the president of Mercy Malaysia, said her group worked with the Egyptian Red Crescent to transfer about $100,000 worth of medical supplies to Gaza on Monday and planned to send another shipment next week.

But while supplies can get through, Mahmood said neither she nor her colleagues were allowed to cross.

www.iht.com...

Originally posted by greeneyedleo

Obstetrician Jemilah Mahmood, the president of Mercy Malaysia, said her group worked with the Egyptian Red Crescent to transfer about $100,000 worth of medical supplies to Gaza on Monday and planned to send another shipment next week.

But while supplies can get through, Mahmood said neither she nor her colleagues were allowed to cross.

www.iht.com...

According to this article (for whatever its worth), supplies are getting through. But who is intercepting them? Where are the supplies going?



[edit on 1/6/2009 by greeneyedleo]

"No one has come in, we don't know why they're closed on the other side," said a senior border security official. Several plane- and truck-loads of aid are also waiting to be allowed into the Gaza Strip, a security official said.

"The wounded are barred from crossing" into Egypt, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said in Cairo, blaming "those who control Gaza. We are waiting for the wounded to cross."

In the divided town of Rafah, the road leading to the border crossing was lined with 20 riot police vehicles, with 40 ambulances and several pick-ups full of medicine waiting to cross into Gaza.

A security official said that an Egyptian plane with 50 doctors on board as well as medical supplies had arrived in nearby El-Arish. Two Qatari aircraft carrying 50 tonnes of medical supplies were waiting at the same airport.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has also ordered three planeloads of medical aid to the Gaza Strip via Egypt, MENA said, and offered to airlift the wounded.

Israel's arch foe Iran has also said it is sending planeloads of food to Cairo to be taken by the Egyptian Red Crescent to Gaza.