A group of 500 Arab women, children and elderly men caught by the June war in the Gaza Strip crossed the Suez Canal at Kantara yesterday under arrangements negotiated by the International Red Cross. They were taken across the Canal into Egypt by Egyptian ferries.
Twenty Egyptian doctors and 30 nurses remained in Gaza under arrangements between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the Israeli military governor for the Strip. No progress was reported meanwhile to Red Cross offers to work out a prisoner exchange. Israel holds some 5,000 Egyptian war captives and Egypt holds about a dozen servicemen. Israel has requested the inclusion of civilian prisoners in the exchange.
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