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On 12 February 2024, Israel Defense Forces launched an assault on Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip, killing over 83 people. [1] [2] The airstrikes destroyed at least one mosque and multiple inhabited homes, killing most or all of their occupants.
Netanyahu made a surprise visit to Rafah, calling Israel's control of the Egypt–Gaza border and the Rafah crossing "essential" in the future. [ 346 ] The IDF clashed with Palestinian militants in central and western Rafah on 19 July according to residents, while five people were killed due to Israeli attacks according to medical officials ...
Gazans began leaving eastern Rafah on Monday after Israel’s military issued a call for residents there to ... overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah, May 6, 2024. ... at the Rafah crossing said ...
The Rafah crossing has opened from Gaza to Egypt for the first time since the war began on October 7. ... Israel’s air strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp, targeting a Hamas commander, are part ...
Israel said its two days of strikes killed two Hamas military leaders in Jabalia, Gaza’s biggest refugee camp. ... The Rafah crossing is a critical passage, the sole point between Egypt and the ...
Two Palestinians were killed after an Israeli strike on a police car in Rafah. [51] An unnamed Israeli official stated Palestinians in Rafah would be evacuated back northward. [52] At least 28 people were killed in Rafah by overnight Israeli attacks. [53] Egypt warned Israel that if it invaded Rafah, the Egypt–Israel peace treaty would be ...
The Rafah crossing with Egypt and the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel are critical points of entry for food, medicine and other supplies keeping Gaza’s population of 2.3 million alive. They have been closed for at least the past two days, though the smaller Erez crossing between Israel and northern Gaza continues to operate.
[57] [58] [59] However, the Egyptian government, maintains that it has always kept the Rafah Border Crossing open for humanitarian aid coming in and foreign nationals coming out during the Israel–Hamas war, instead blaming four consecutive Israeli air strikes on the Gazan side for keeping the border crossing closed.