Preventing access to humanitarian aid may constitute a crime, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan has said after visiting Egypt’s Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip. The international tribunal has opened an investigation into war [ More … ]
Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday. Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip’s borders with Egypt and Israel to the Palestinian [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have prevented an Algerian humanitarian aid convoy from entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Crossing, a Palestinian NGO revealed on Friday. The NGO said the Egyptian decision to prevent the entry of [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday after an exceptional four-day opening made for the passage of Palestinian pilgrims traveling to perform the Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have decided to open the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip from Monday until Thursday next week to allow the passage of Muslim pilgrims traveling to Saudi Arabia for Hajj, [ More … ]
Twenty months have passed since four Palestinian young men from the occupied Gaza Strip were mysteriously abducted after entering Egypt via Rafah crossing. It is worth to mention that the Egyptian authorities have not released [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities on Saturday evening announced that the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip would be opened in both directions on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, according to spokesman of Gaza’s crossings [ More … ]
Egypt extended the opening of the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip by one day, the Hamas-led Ministry of Interior in Gaza announced. The crossing initially opened on Saturday for three days, but [ More … ]
Two travelers died “of natural causes” at the Rafah crossing on Sunday, on the second of a three-day opening of the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian border committee said in [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities are expected to open the Rafah crossing for the next four consecutive days starting Saturday, according to the Palestinian embassy in Cairo. The embassy said that the decesion to open the crossing was [ More … ]
– The terminal will remain open in both directions for five days – Egyptian authorities on Monday reopened the Rafah border crossing with the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to Anadolu Agency. In a statement, Gaza’s [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip late on Sunday night after two weeks of discontinuous openings to let travelers in and out of the besieged Palestinian territory. According [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities reopened on Wednesday the Rafah border-crossing on both sides so as to allow humanitarian cases’ access out of and into the blockaded Gaza Strip, just a few days following the crossing’s opening [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt on Saturday, opening both sides for two days, Egypt opens Rafah crossing for 2 days for humanitarian cases and ‘stranded people’, [ More … ]
The Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip after a third and final group of Palestinian worshipers returning from the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage entered Gaza before dawn on Saturday, [ More … ]
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