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Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Monday for limited traffic, a key step in the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic development on the ground, as few people will be allowed to travel in either direction and no goods will be going into the war-torn territory. CBC | World News
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Rafah border crossing into Gaza opened for limited passage, Israel says
Israel reopened the Rafah border crossing on Sunday for people to travel between Gaza and Egypt, the first opening of effectively the sole route in or out of the Palestinian territory since May 2024. Israel seized the border crossing in May 2024, nine months after it launched attacks on the region. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel says Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt will reopen on Sunday
Israel will reopen the Rafah border crossing on Sunday for people to travel between Gaza and Egypt, a government agency said, the first opening of effectively the sole route in or out of the Palestinian territory since May 2024. CBC | World News
Read More »What we know about plans to open the Rafah border crossing this week
For Palestinians in Gaza, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, as the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan moves into its second phase. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel denies Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt is reopening
The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will reopen Monday for people returning to Gaza, the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt said Saturday, but the territory’s sole gateway to the outside world will remain closed to people trying to leave. CBC | World News
Read More »Gaza receives 45 bodies of Palestinians released by Israel as Rafah crossing remains shut
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Read More »Israel’s plan for ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah sparks outrage
Palestinians and human rights activists expressed alarm after Israel’s defence minister said he plans to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp at the southern tip of the war-battered enclave, according to Israeli media. Some said it would violate international law and amount to crimes against humanity. CBC | World News
Read More »At least 20 more Palestinians killed, 200 wounded near aid site in Rafah: medics
Israeli fire killed at least 40 people, half of them near an aid distribution site operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Monday, the territory’s health ministry said. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli gunfire heard as droves of Palestinians try to reach aid centre in Rafah
Israeli tank and gunfire was heard Tuesday while large crowds of Palestinians tried to reach a newly opened aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, according to reports from CBC and AP journalists. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel flattens remains of Rafah ruins as latest strikes on Gaza hit 3 homes
Israel’s army is flattening the remaining ruins of the city of Rafah on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, residents say, in what they fear is a part of a plan to herd the population into confinement in a giant camp on the barren ground. CBC | World News
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