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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 ...
Israel then opened the Rafah crossing, which came under its control until 2005. In the two years that followed, prior to Hamas’ takeover of Gaza, roughly 450,000 people used the crossing.
Israel has taken control of the Rafah Border Crossing, Gaza’s main entry and exit point into Egypt. The U.N. said that this had resulted in “further cutting off life-saving humanitarian aid ...
The Rafah crossing was opened by Israel after the 1979 peace treaty and remained under Israeli control until 2005, when it was transferred to Egyptian, Palestinian Authority, and EU control, giving Palestinians partial control of an international border for the first time.
Thirty-seven sick and wounded Palestinians have left Gaza for medical treatment in Egypt following the reopening of the Rafah border crossing after eight months. The World Health Organization (WHO ...
An investigation by The New York Times found that nearly all of the underground tunnels were destroyed by Egypt after 2013. [117] Per a report by The Jerusalem Post, Hamas used the border area mainly for launching rockets on Israel rather than for smuggling. [118] Airstrikes on Rafah started on 8 October 2023, [119] and continued throughout the ...
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 court also ordered Israel to reopen the Rafah border crossing. But it did not call for a full cease-fire throughout Gaza as South Africa, which brought the case, requested at hearings last week.