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Head of new Gaza leadership Ali Shaath says Rafah Crossing opens 'window of hope' for Gazans

Israel fully reopened the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Monday for people on foot, a day after rolling out a limited, one-day pilot on Sunday to address potential logistical issues.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
A Palestinian patient, accompanied by relatives, waits to leave Gaza for treatment abroad through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after it was opened by Israel on Monday for a limited number of people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 2, 2026.
A vehicle carries Egyptian soldiers near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, August 6, 2025

Rafah Border Crossing will be test for Gaza’s next stage - analysis

Regional expectations are growing that the Rafah crossing will reopen this week, but doubts remain over how fully Israel will allow movement, as the ceasefire enters a critical stage.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A Palestinian man is seen detained by the IDF in Rafah, Gaza, in the summer of 2024.

US pressuring Israel to allow terrorists behind Yellow Line safe passage - report

Despite Israel’s opposition to allowing the terrorists to cross, US officials have continued to pressure the Jewish state, citing Hamas’s willingness to release the bodies of the remaining hostages.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hamas and Red Cross workers searching for the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages in Shajaiyah, Gaza. November 4, 2025.

Egypt's proposal for holed-up Hamas terrorists: Hand over weapons, locate Rafah tunnels to exit

Two of the sources said the Hamas fighters in Rafah, which the group's armed wing has said have been out of contact since March, might be unaware that a ceasefire was in place.

|ByREUTERS

Hamas: Fuel, humanitarian aid to enter tomorrow and Rafah border to open next week

The official claimed the mediators have begun talks to resume the operation of the Gaza Electric Company.

OCTOBER 10, 2025ByLIRAN AHARONI
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, August 13, 2025.

Pro-Palestinian protesters target Egyptian embassies, demand an end to Gaza 'siege'

Footage from Cairo’s London embassy showed activists blocking the doors of the building. 

JULY 26, 2025ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A demonstrator holds signs during a protest against hunger crisis in Gaza, near the embassy of Egypt in Beirut, Lebanon July 23, 2025.

'Your bias is outrageous': WSJ editorial condemns ICJ ruling against Israel

"The inversion of international law is something to behold: Hamas slaughters Israeli civilians and hides behind its own so that Israel stands accused.”

MAY 29, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
WHILE MANY view the ICJ as an independent judicial body, it is inherently political. Its judges are elected by the UN General Assembly and Security Council, bodies notorious for anti-Israel bias, the writer says.

Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 235?

Hostile aircraft infiltrate Israel's South • IDF intercepts two UAVs • International bodies condemn airstrike in Rafah

MAY 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, May 28, 2024

EU agrees to revive Rafah mission, Borrell criticizes Israel's Netanyahu

Borrell also said the bloc had agreed for the first time to hold a meeting of the EU-Israel Council—the body that coordinates trade between the two—to discuss the situation in Gaza.

MAY 27, 2024ByREUTERS
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 people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory, Palestinian officials said.

Israeli-Egyptian tensions rise over closed Rafah crossing

Foreign Minister Israel Katz has spoken with his German and British counterparts, urging them to pressure Egypt to allow trucks with humanitarian aid to pass into Gaza.

MAY 14, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry attends a press conference with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Stephane Sejourne and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi following a meeting discussing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Tahrir Palace,

ICJ to hold hearings today over new emergency measures after Rafah operation

South Africa wants the move to join its larger case against Israel.

MAY 14, 2024ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Israel secretly asked Palestinian Authority to run Rafah crossing

Four officials from the PA, Israel and the United States told Axios that Israel made the request as Egypt threatened to disallow the transport of aid unless Israel withdrew from Rafah

MAY 14, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, YONAH JEREMY BOB
A truck crosses from Gaza to Egypt, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas war, in Rafah, Egypt

Dozens of Gazans stopped by Egyptian military as they attempt to cross the border

Israel has reportedly begun launching airstrikes and evacuated some 100,000 of the over one million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah.

MAY 6, 2024ByMAARIV, EYAL GREEN, DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
People flee the eastern parts of Rafah after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians, May 6, 2024

Guterres to visit Egyptian border as Israel says Rafah invasion is imminent

Guterres will later travel to Jordan where he will visit UNRWA facilities and have a Ramadan Iftar with Palestinian refugees and UN staff in Amman. 

MARCH 22, 2024ByHANNAH SARISOHN
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres waits for the arrival of French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in the Gaza Strip at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., January 23, 2024.