Rafah

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter in a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 11, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/ Bassam Masoud/File Photo
Middle East

Palestinian leader appeals to US to stop Israel's Rafah offensive

More than half of Gaza's population is in Rafah and conditions in the overcrowded southern city are already dire, with displaced people there telling the BBC there was a lack of food, water...

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Hamas-Israel war

Israel intensifies airstrikes on Gaza's Rafah before ground operation

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip April 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahdy Zourob/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israel says it is poised to move on Rafah

Israel has bombarded the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas's October 7 attacks. Photo: MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
Middle East

Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package

Israel has bombarded the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas's October 7 attacks. Photo: MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package

A woman reacts next to the bodies of Palestinians (not pictured) killed in Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli tanks push back in northern Gaza, warplanes hit Rafah, say residents

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Israelis agree to consider US concerns about Rafah offensive-joint statement

A Palestinian boy walks on the site of an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud
Hamas-Israel war

Israeli strikes on Rafah raise fear ground assault could begin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, 19 March, 2023. File Photo: Reuters
Hamas-Israel war

Israel asks US to reschedule scrapped meeting on Rafah military plans

File photo of United States Secretary of State Antony J Blinken. Photo: Bloomberg
Hamas-Israel war

Blinken says Rafah offensive risks further isolating Israel globally

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 19, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Israel hits Rafah from the air as US urges rethink on the ground

Photo: Collected
Hamas-Israel war

Israel team to visit US over Biden concerns on Rafah, Gaza 'anarchy'

File Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz (not pictured) in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 October 2023. Photo: Reuters
Hamas-Israel war

Netanyahu says Israel to press on with Rafah assault plan