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The Rafah Border Crossing (Arabic: معبر رفح, romanized: Ma`bar Rafaḥ) or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip. Under a 2007 agreement between Egypt and Israel , Egypt controls the crossing but imports through the Rafah crossing require Israeli approval.
The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the international border that was confirmed in the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty. Only passage of persons takes place through the Rafah Border Crossing; as such, the Egypt–Gaza border is only open to the passage of people, not of goods.
The Rafah Border Crossing was opened near Rafah on 25 November 2005, operated by the Palestinian Authority and US-sponsored [10] Egypt, under supervision of EU observers. During the first six months of 2006, the crossing was opened nine and a half hours a day with an average of 650 people crossing daily each way, which was almost double the ...
Watch a live view of the Rafah crossing on Monday, 7 November as foreign nationals and wounded Palestinians leave Gaza over the border with Egypt. The crossing reopened for a limited number of ...
Rafah, on Gaza's southern border with Egypt, is now the primary exit out of the strip as the two other border sites in Israel's control are closed. There's only one possible crossing out of Gaza ...
Watch a live view of the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday 1 November after the Palestinian border authority said injured Gazans are to enter Egypt. The Israeli military has admitted to launching ...
The following is a list of border crossing points in France (French: points de passages frontaliers, or "PPF") forming the external border of the Schengen Area.By contrast, the term points de passages autorisés ("PPA") refers to the crossing points at the border between France and other Schengen countries (i.e. internal borders of the Schengen Area).
Kerem Shalom border crossing (Hebrew: מעבר כרם שלום, "Vineyard of Peace"; [2] Arabic: معبر كرم أبو سالم, Karem Abu Salem) is a border crossing at the junction of two border sections: one between the Gaza Strip and Israel, and one between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. It is used by trucks carrying goods from Israel or Egypt ...