While some Palestinians were able to dig up miscellaneous items deep under the rubble, many felt hopeless after dreaming about the possibility of returning to their homes and repairing or rebuilding ...

AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: Rafah is nothing short of apocalyptic - gray mounds of rubble far as the eye can see and piles of skeletons, where bodies have rotted away. (SOUNDBITE OF DEBRIS FALLING ...

Yesterday, he returned. NPR international correspondent Aya Batrawy has this report on what he found. AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: Rafah is nothing short of apocalyptic - gray mounds of rubble far as the eye ...

It organised small pro-Sisi protests at the Rafah border crossing leading to Gaza ... relations with Israel in 1979. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis ...