The border at Rafah falls along an 8-mile (12.8-kilometer) fence, which separates Gaza from the Sinai desert. According to United Nations figures, an average of 27,000 people crossed the border each ...

‘Rafah is dying, and any delay in response is a death sentence for thousands of families who have lost everything,’ Ahmed al-Soufi says Palestinians, living in makeshift tents in the Al-Mawasi ...

02/01/2025 February 1, 2025 The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has opened for the first time in nearly nine months. Among those being able to cross into Egypt were 50 sick and ...

Ambulances drive as the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip reopens, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, Feb 1, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] CAIRO -- Fifty ...

CAIRO, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- A total of 94 Palestinian patients and 125 accompanying individuals from the Gaza Strip have entered Egypt through the Rafah crossing since Saturday, Egypt's press center ...

The border point had been closed after Israel invaded the southern city of Rafah in May but is opening again as part of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. By Adam Rasgon Reporting ...

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 ...

The Rafah crossing, the only channel linking Egypt with the Gaza Strip, is open and will start receiving patients from Gaza, Governor of Egypt's North Sinai Governorate Khaled Megawer said on Friday.

The Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt is set to reopen on Saturday following the release of the fourth batch of Israeli hostages and Palestinian security prisoners, a Hamas official and ...