Some Western nations offer to assist with treating patients from Gaza in West Bank

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Canada, France, Germany and some other Western and European countries made an offer on Monday to provide financial contributions, medical staff or equipment needed to treat patients from Gaza in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

"We strongly appeal to Israel to restore the medical corridor to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, so medical evacuations from Gaza can be resumed and patients can get the treatment that they so urgently need on Palestinian territory," the countries said in a joint statement released by Canada.

Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the European Union and Poland were among the two dozen signatories of the statement. The United States was not listed as a signatory.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Jamie Freed)