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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.
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2025-05-28 22:04
By Martin Jamshidi
Humiliating starved people
TEHRAN - On Tuesday, thousands of Palestinians clambered over fences to reach the humanitarian supplies at a distribution site run by the previously unknown, U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in Rafah, southern Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-04-11 21:25
By our staff writer
Israel’s limitless evil acts: From occupation and genocide to open lies
TEHRAN - Israel is not only an occupier, racist, and criminal regime but also a regime that feels no shame in telling open lies.
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2025-04-05 22:13
New video evidence disputes Israeli army's account of medic killings
New video evidence relating to the killing of 15 Palestinian rescue workers by Israeli forces has emerged, contradicting the Israeli account of the attack on a medical convoy in Rafah.
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2025-01-13 23:34
Qassam Brigades says its fighters ‘wound and kill’ 25 Israeli soldiers in Rafah
Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, says its fighters have raided a building in southern Gaza’s Rafah where a group of Israeli soldiers were stationed, killing or wounding all 25 soldiers inside.
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2024-09-18 20:27
By Wesam Bahrani
Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza
TEHRAN- The Israeli military revealed on Wednesday that four of its troops have died in the Gaza Strip, with seven others wounded.
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2024-06-11 22:31
Less than 100,000 people left in Rafah
The UN has warned that there are now less than 100,000 people left in Rafah following Israel's attack on the city.
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2024-06-10 21:50
Qassam Brigades launches attack on Israeli forces in Rafah
The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says it has “killed and wounded” an unnamed number of Israeli forces in the Shaboura camp of Gaza’s Rafah city.
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2024-06-10 16:40
War on Gaza: US courts must hold Biden accountable
It is no secret that the Israeli military is carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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2024-06-04 19:52
Oxfam: Two-thirds of population crammed into one-fifth of Gaza
About 1.7 million Palestinians are estimated to be crammed into just one-fifth of the Gaza Strip, after more than one million people fled Rafah, according to the aid group Oxfam.
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2024-05-31 19:09
Iranians rally in Tehran, major cities against Israeli crimes in Rafah
TEHRAN - After the Friday prayers, people in Tehran held a rally to condemn the crimes of the Zionist regime in Rafah, and to voice their outrage over Zionist atrocities.
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2024/05/29
By Narges Pakdel
Tragedy after tragedy for dislocated Gaza families
For nearly eight excruciating months, the people of Gaza have endured relentless displacement, pursued like prey and torn apart by the ongoing conflict that has ravaged their homeland.
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2024-05-28 22:38
Global protests condemn Israeli carnage in Rafah
TEHRAN- Israel’s weekend brutal attack on a tent camp in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah has sparked global outrage and anti-war protests across the world.
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2024-05-28 22:11
Hezbollah chief condemns Israeli “savage” attack in Rafah
TEHRAN- Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said late on Tuesday that Israel’s airstrike against displaced Palestinians in Rafah has turned the spotlight on the extreme brutality of Zionists (the Israeli regime).
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2024-05-28 22:06
By Parviz Rashidi
Israel Katz resorting to deceitful and misleading remarks
TEHRAN - Feeling that Israel is being badly isolated, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz made a strong criticism of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez over recognizing Palestine as a sovereign and independent state, claiming he is a “partner to incitement” of Jewish “genocide”.
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2024-05-27 22:24
UNICEF: End senseless killing of Rafah kids
The head of UNICEF on Monday demanded an “end to the senseless killing of children” following the Israeli airstrike on tents housing displaced people in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza Strip, Anadolu news agency reported.
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2024/05/26
By Matin Jamshidi
Israel finds itself in an unprecedented predicament
TEHRAN - Israel has come under unprecedented pressure for its mad war in Gaza. It may have not seen itself in such a predicament in its 75-year history.