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Gaza Strip. The Egypt–Palestine border, [1] also called Egypt–Gaza border, is the 12-kilometre (7.5-mile) long border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. There is a buffer zone along the border which is about 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) long. The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point
In October 2014, Egypt announced that they planned to expand the buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt, following a terrorist attack from Gaza that killed 31 Egyptian soldiers. [17] Between July 2013 and August 2015, Egypt demolished 3,255 private houses on their side of the Egypt-Gaza border in order to create a buffer zone.
2008 breach of the Egypt–Gaza border; 2009 Hamas political violence in Gaza; 2019 Gaza economic protests; 2023 Gaza economic protests; Battle of Gaza (2007) Blockade of the Gaza Strip; Egypt–Gaza border; Fatah–Hamas conflict; Gaza Strip; Karni crossing; March 2010 Israel–Gaza clashes; March 2012 Gaza–Israel clashes; November 2019 Gaza ...
The narrow corridor — about 100 meters (yards) wide in parts — runs the 14-kilometer (8.6-mile) length of the Gaza side of the border with Egypt and includes the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah, satellite images analyzed Friday by The ...
As part of that treaty, a 100-meter-wide strip of land known as the Philadelphi Corridor was established as a buffer zone between Gaza and Egypt. [10] In the Peace Treaty, the re-created Gaza–Egypt border was drawn across the city of Rafah. When Israel withdrew from the Sinai in 1982, Rafah was divided into an Egyptian and a Palestinian part ...
Egypt has framed its opposition to the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza as part of wider Arab rejection of any repeat of the "Nakba", or "catastrophe", when some 700,000 Palestinians fled or ...
Area [1] • Total. 176.4 sq mi (456.9 km 2) ... Rafah is the site of the Rafah Border Crossing, the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.