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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 ...
Gazans with foreign passports wait arrive the Rafah Border Gate and wait to cross into Egypt as Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip continue on the eighth day in Rafah, Gaza on October 14, 2023 ...
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 crossing as Israel and Hamas agree four-day ceasefire on Friday (24 November). A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has begun at the scheduled time ...
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 ...
Israel had consistently tried to turn the Kerem Shalom border crossing (which borders Egypt) into a commercial crossing between Gaza and Israel, or as an alternative passenger crossing to Rafah. The Palestinians were concerned that Israel would take control over the Gaza-Egypt border or even replace Rafah and objected.
On 6 May, before and during the offensive, Israel struck Rafah at least 50 times. [136] Later that day, in a limited invasion, the IDF entered the outskirts of Rafah and approached the Rafah Border Crossing and the Egyptian border. [96] [137] 20 Hamas gunmen were killed in the operation, according to the IDF.
The Rafah border crossing opened yesterday for the first time to allow the evacuation of foreign nationals and injured dual nationality citizens who wanted to leave Gaza.