Rafah border

Rafah border crossing to reopen next week with Israeli oversight, advanced screening

Israel plans to oversee the Rafah border reopening next week, using remote monitoring and advanced screening to prevent weapons smuggling while ensuring security for travelers.

|ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
Military personnel stand guard on the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023
Palestinians walk along a street flooded by rainwater in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 13, 2026.

Who is Ali Shaath, leader of Gaza's new technocratic committee? - explainer

The committee is expected to meet for the first time on Thursday in Egypt, crossing the Rafah border, a Palestinian source told Agence France-Presse.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Following an air strike the Nahal Brigade conducted a search of a building in eastern Rafah, where they identified one terrorist who had been killed in the airstrike, and three additional armed terrorists.

IDF kills two terrorists at Rafah Crossing under cover of severe weather

The remaining four terrorists returned IDF fire, and it is not clear whether they were hit or managed to escape. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

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.

|ByLIRAN AHARONI

UN aid chief warns against possible spillover from Gaza into Egypt

The United Nations has said an Israeli offensive on Rafah could "lead to a slaughter".

FEBRUARY 15, 2024ByREUTERS
Displaced members of Palestinian Abu Mustafa family, who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, prepare food as they shelter at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 10, 2024.

WH praises hostage raid, bemoans Palestinian deaths amid Netanyahu-Biden tensions

The Biden administration was “pleased to hear the news of two Israeli hostages freed last night by Israeli Defense Forces in Rafah after 128 days” Kirby said.

FEBRUARY 12, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is welcomed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in October, when the president visited Israel following the massacres carried out by Hamas.

What’s at stake for Israel, Hamas in Rafah showdown? - analysis

Gulf media and Western media both focus on the potential operation, showing what is at stake in Rafah.

FEBRUARY 11, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Palestinians at the site of a destroyed building from an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 14, 2024

The Rafah tipping point: The culmination of Israel's war on Hamas - comment

Taking on the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza can end the war or create the ultimate humanitarian disaster. Perhaps both simultaneously.

FEBRUARY 11, 2024ByDAVID BRINN
Displaced Palestinian woman Laila Abu Mustafa, who fled her house due to Israeli strikes, shelters at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 10, 2024.

Why pro-Iran media is worried about Israel and Gaza's Philadelphi Corridor - analysis

Currently, Hamas controls the area along the Egyptian border, and this remains one of the last Hamas strongholds in Gaza.

JANUARY 30, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Trucks carrying aid arrive, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, January 17, 2024

Israeli intelligence chiefs in Cairo for Gaza's Rafah talks

Until now, the IDF has held off from going after Hamas in Rafah, from cutting off the terror group’s cross-Egypt-Gaza border tunnels.

JANUARY 30, 2024ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Varios palestinos con doble nacionalidad esperan sentados frente a las puertas del paso fronterizo de Rafah con Egipto con la esperanza de obtener permiso para salir de Gaza, en medio del actual conflicto palestino-israelí, en Rafah, en el sur de la Franja de Gaza. 14 de octubre de 2023.

Israel testing new inspecting process at Gaza crossing, UN says

Until now, limited quantities of aid have been delivered from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, which is ill-equipped to process large numbers of trucks.

DECEMBER 9, 2023ByREUTERS
Palestinian workers wait outside Kerem Shalom crossing after a ceasefire was agreed between Palestinian factions and Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip May 14, 2023.

US making intense effort to get hostages out of Gaza, no guarantee of success - official

Explaining why it took "so long" to get foreign nationals out, the official said Hamas conditioned the release of foreigners on wounded Palestinians being able to exit as well.

NOVEMBER 4, 2023ByREUTERS
Palestinian laborers, who were in Israel during the Hamas October 7 attack, arrive at the Rafah border after being sent back by Israel to the strip, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 3, 2023.

First Americans and other foreign nationals flee Gaza through Rafah

At least 320 foreign nationals and dozens of severely injured Gazans were among the first beneficiaries of the Qatari-mediated deal brokered between Egypt, Israel and Hamas. 

NOVEMBER 1, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS
Egyptian quarantine doctors conduct medical examinations for foreign passport holders after their arrival at the Rafah crossing from Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terroristgroup Hamas in Rafah, Egypt November 1, 2023 in this handout picture courtesy of the Egypti

Biden pledges Gazans will have food, water as aid trucks enter Rafah

Israel imposed a total blockade and launched air strikes on Gaza in response to a deadly attack on Israeli soil by Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7.

OCTOBER 21, 2023ByREUTERS, TOVAH LAZAROFF
UN workers gesture as trucks carrying aid arrive at the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian terrorist group Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 21, 2023.