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2026-02-16 22:43
By Sondoss Al Asaad
Israel’s renewed anxiety over Egypt’s strategic weight
BEIRUT — Since the early confrontations of 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 to the uneasy decades that followed the Camp David Accords, Egypt and its army have remained central to the anti-Israel conflict equation.
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2026-02-06 17:40
By Wesam Bahrani
Rafah crossing: Symbolic gesture or start of a new era?
TEHRAN – After two years of closure, the Rafah land crossing has once again come into the spotlight.
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2026-02-04 12:53
UN chief urges Gaza aid as Israel blocks most medical evacuees at Rafah
TEHRAN- United Nations chief Antonio Guterres again has called on Israel to immediately allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli authorities continue to block dozens of Palestinians from exiting the war-ravaged enclave to seek medical treatment.
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2026-02-01 17:43
The choreography of cruelty: Rafah's ‘trial’ reopening and the performance of siege
TEHRAN – The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt reopened on Sunday “on a trial basis” after being nearly completely sealed for more than two years under the Israeli blockade. The limited reopening, announced by Israeli authorities, underscores the ongoing control Israel exercises over Palestinian life, even amid a so-called ceasefire.
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2026-01-31 20:10
By Wesam Bahrani
Rafah border crossing: What the reopening reveals about Israel’s next moves
TEHRAN – The scheduled opening of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday is another sign of the Israeli regime’s larger scheme.
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2026-01-28 18:18
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel's Rafah closure is a death sentence for Gaza's patients
TEHRAN – Israel's continued closure of the Rafah crossing amounts to a death sentence for thousands of Palestinian patients and wounded trapped in the Gaza Strip.
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2025-12-26 16:25
Life under displacement in Gaza: A firsthand visual testimony from Rafah and Deir al-Balah
This photo report is compiled by Ezzedine Shallah, a Palestinian filmmaker and researcher displaced by Israel’s war on Gaza. The images document two stages of forced displacement: his bombed home in Rafah (2024) and daily life inside a tent in Deir al-Balah (2025). Taken from within the Gaza Strip, these photographs bear witness to the destruction of civilian homes, the erosion of family life, and the ongoing reality of survival under bombardment, hunger, and uncertainty.
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2025-10-19 14:54
Israel strikes Rafah as ceasefire frays; Gaza civilians bear the cost
Israeli aircraft struck Rafah on Sunday in what Gaza authorities and independent observers called a breach of the fragile ceasefire that began earlier this month, rejecting Israel’s claim that the attack was a response to fire on its troops.
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2025-07-19 21:38
Israeli airstrikes kill nearly 100 in Gaza as starvation crisis deepens
TEHRAN — Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed dozens more Palestinians on Saturday, intensifying the already dire situation in the besieged territory. Hospital sources in Gaza told Al Jazeera that the death toll from strikes on Rafah has risen to 90, including about three dozen people who were trying to access aid.
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2025-07-12 21:01
Gaza talks at risk as Israel demands Rafah occupation and GHF continuation
Hamas negotiators are increasingly skeptical that a Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel could be reached in the current round of talks in Doha, Middle East Eye has learned.
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2025-07-08 22:03
Israeli plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah
Israeli human rights lawyer condemns the move as nothing less than an 'operational plan for a crime against humanity'
Israel's Israel Katz says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.
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2025-06-08 20:24
Dozens wounded in necks, chests, heads from shootings near aid sites
Earlier Sunday morning, the GHF posted on Facebook that it was going to open and deliver food. That’s why many Palestinians approached distribution points in both Wadi Gaza and al-Mawasi, Rafah. Thousands of people approached these distribution points to try to collect whatever food they could.
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2025-06-03 22:27
Israeli forces targeted heads, chests of Palestinians collecting food
The civil defense teams have described the distribution points where Palestinians are supposed to get food as death traps.
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2025-06-01 20:25
Israeli soldiers open fire when crowds grow at aid points: Charity chief
Bassam Zaqout, director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, has described the chaotic scenes at aid distribution points following the deadly Israeli attack in Rafah.