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Two women and five children were among at least 13 people killed as Israeli airstrikes pounded the city of Rafah on Gaza's southern border, according to the hospital that received the remains. The ...
Displaced Palestinian families in Gaza's south have fled what they said was intensifying Israeli fire in northern areas of Rafah to seek shelter elsewhere, describing a chaotic night as the sounds ...
The raid took place in Rafah, the city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip where 1.4 million Palestinians have fled to escape fighting elsewhere in the Israel-Hamas war.
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least 27 Palestinians in tank and air strikes on north and central areas of the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as tanks advanced further into ...
[235] [236] Al Qahera News reported that Egypt, the U.S. and Qatar were trying to revive ceasefire talks. [237] Rafah's field hospitals evacuated to the al-Mawasi area. [238] IDF tanks continued their probing attacks on 29 May, entering Tel al-Sultan, Yibna and Shaboura neighborhoods before withdrawing to the border with Egypt.
Many refugees fled to Rafah, with over 1.4 million civilians sheltering in the city and outlying tent camps. [4] Israel invaded Rafah on 6 May despite orders from the ICJ to cease the offensive, and a further 950,000 civilians fled to western Rafah, including the al-Mawasi refugee camp. [5]
Egypt, fearing a great influx of Gazans into Sinai implemented strict policies in Rafah crossing. [43] On 27 October, Cindy McCain , director of the World Food Program , criticized the checks at the Egyptian side of the crossing as "overly stringent" and limiting the flow of aid, which had previously been closer to 500 trucks a day. [ 44 ]
The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened to let desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians for the first time since Israel sealed off the territory, as the health ministry has ...