Rafah border

EU border monitors deploy to Rafah Crossing to monitor security

The initial opening was intended to be on Sunday, day 14 of the hostage-ceasefire deal.

 Military personnel stand guard on the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023
 Egyptian security forces stand guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip August 30, 2008. Egypt opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, allowing hundreds of people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory, Palestinian officials said.

Rafah Crossing to re-open Friday, terrorists among those to leave

 Food in Gaza, seen by the Jerusalem Post this week.

How Israel manages Gaza aid: 'Post' journeys to key crossings

IDF Givati Brigade operates in eastern Rafah. May 18, 2024.

IDF kills over 80 terrorists, seizes anti-aircraft guns in eastern Rafah


What happened on Day 221?

Hamas uses UN facilities for cover • US denies it withheld information about Hamas leaders' whereabouts • IDF kills Hamas terrorists in UNRWA school

 IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip.

Israel secretly asked Palestinian Authority to run Rafah crossing

Four officials from the PA, Israel and the United States told Axios that Israel made the request as Egypt threatened to disallow the transport of aid unless Israel withdrew from Rafah

 A truck crosses from Gaza to Egypt, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt

Dozens of Gazans stopped by Egyptian military as they attempt to cross the border

Israel has reportedly begun launching airstrikes and evacuated some 100,000 of the over one million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah.

 People flee the eastern parts of Rafah after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians, May 6, 2024

Guterres to visit Egyptian border as Israel says Rafah invasion is imminent

Guterres will later travel to Jordan where he will visit UNRWA facilities and have a Ramadan Iftar with Palestinian refugees and UN staff in Amman. 

 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres waits for the arrival of French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in the Gaza Strip at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., January 23, 2024.

Israeli offensive in Gaza's Rafah 'cannot be allowed to happen' - UN

Netanyahu referred to Rafah as "the last Hamas stronghold."

 Palestinians arrive in Rafah after they were evacuated from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis due to the Israeli ground operation, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2024.

Egypt building border wall as Israel assaults Rafah - WSJ

The wall, which is set to span 8 square miles, is being developed as Egyptian officials fear refugees from Gaza will flood into the country after Israel removes Hamas from power.

 DISPLACED PALESTINIANS shelter at the border with Egypt, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

UN aid chief warns against possible spillover from Gaza into Egypt

The United Nations has said an Israeli offensive on Rafah could "lead to a slaughter".

 Displaced members of Palestinian Abu Mustafa family, who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, prepare food as they shelter at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 10, 2024.

WH praises hostage raid, bemoans Palestinian deaths amid Netanyahu-Biden tensions

The Biden administration was “pleased to hear the news of two Israeli hostages freed last night by Israeli Defense Forces in Rafah after 128 days” Kirby said.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in October, when the president visited Israel following the massacres carried out by Hamas.

What’s at stake for Israel, Hamas in Rafah showdown? - analysis

Gulf media and Western media both focus on the potential operation, showing what is at stake in Rafah.

 Palestinians at the site of a destroyed building from an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 14, 2024

The Rafah tipping point: The culmination of Israel's war on Hamas - comment

Taking on the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza can end the war or create the ultimate humanitarian disaster. Perhaps both simultaneously.

 Displaced Palestinian woman Laila Abu Mustafa, who fled her house due to Israeli strikes, shelters at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 10, 2024.

Why pro-Iran media is worried about Israel and Gaza's Philadelphi Corridor - analysis

Currently, Hamas controls the area along the Egyptian border, and this remains one of the last Hamas strongholds in Gaza.

 Trucks carrying aid arrive, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, January 17, 2024