By Ahmed al-Halili

JERUSALEM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday injured civilians in Syria's war-battered city of Aleppo might be treated in Israel.

“We are prepared to take in wounded women and children, and also men if they are not combatants," Netanyahu said in a statement.

He said he ordered the foreign ministry to find a way to do it and that thousands of Syrians had been previously treated at Israeli hospitals.

Under a cease-fire agreement secured last week by Turkey and Russia, civilians trapped in eastern Aleppo have been allowed to go to the opposition-held city of Idlib.

A total of 20,000 people have been so far evacuated, Turkey's foreign minister announced Monday.

The injured were allowed into Turkey via the Cilvegozu Border Crossing, and more injured are expected.

Ambulances and medical teams are stationed at the border to help the injured.