1 day ago · Israeli forces closed the Rafah crossing in early May after seizing it during an offensive on the southern city. Egypt shut down its side of the passage in protest. Even before the Gaza war began, the Rafah crossing represented a crucial escape valve from the territory, where a 15-year Israeli-Egyptian blockade aimed at containing Hamas undermined health facilities and impoverished the population.

Rafah (Arabic: رفح, IPA: [ˈɾɑfɑħ]) is a city in North Sinai and Egypt's eastern border with the Gaza Strip.It is the capital of Rafah center in North Sinai Governorate, and is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt.. Rafah is the site of the Rafah Border Crossing, the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. [clarification needed] The Egyptian government ...

1 day ago · Sick and wounded people left Gaza for Egypt through the Rafah border crossing on Saturday for the first time in nine months under a key provision of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

2 days ago · Reopening the crossing at Rafah, which has long been Gaza’s lifeline to the outside world, is a key stipulation of the cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. Mediators hope that the agreement ...

1 day ago · The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment abroad.

2 days ago · The European Union has restarted its civilian mission to monitor the border crossing at Rafah as the key transit point between Gaza and Egypt is set to reopen on Saturday for medical evacuations.

2 days ago · The Rafah crossing is the southernmost post of exit from Gaza. There are only two other border crossings from and into the Gaza Strip - Erez, a crossing into Israel in northern Gaza, which is for ...

2 days ago · Item 1 of 2 Trucks carrying aid line up near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, February 1, 2025.

Jan 22, 2025 · Rafah, city along the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt that, for most of the 20th and into the 21st century, has been bisected with an eastern half in the Gaza area and a western half in Egypt. In 2023–24 Gazans displaced by the Israel-Hamas War crowded into the city as it became the final refuge for both civilians and what Israeli …

Feb 12, 2024 · Egypt has threatened to void its decades-long peace treaty with Israel if it begins a large-scale offensive against Rafah, where some 1.4 million Palestinians are sheltering in densely packed tent camps on the border with Egypt.