Rafah

Smoke rises during an Israeli ground operation in Khan Younis, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from a tent camp sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip January 31, 2024. REUTERS/Bassam Masoud/ File photo
Hamas-Israel war

Saudi warns of 'catastrophe' if Israel moves on Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday ordered the army to prepare to evacuate civilians from Rafah ahead of a planned ground operation against Hamas in the city

Mourners hold the body of a Palestinian child killed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospital, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 10, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Hamas-Israel war

Palestinians brace for Rafah assault as Israel promises evacuation plan

View of Gaza City, December 15, 2023 in this handout satellite image. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS/ File photo
Hamas-Israel war

Saudi Arabia warns of 'catastrophe' if Israel moves on Rafah

Palestinians carry belongings at 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, February 9, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Hamas-Israel war

Israel prepares assault on Rafah, seeks to allay fears of 'bloodbath'

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS
Hamas-Israel war

As Israel attacks Rafah, US offers only words of caution

Palestinians mourn over shrouded bodies of relatives killed in overnight Israeli bombardment on the southern Gaza Strip at Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah on February 8, 2024. Photo: Mahmud HAMS / AFP
Hamas-Israel war

Israel PM orders troops to ready for push into crowded Rafah

Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Hamas-Israel war

Palestinians hope Blinken visit can deliver Gaza truce before Rafah assault

Military personnel stand guard on the day of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, October 31, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
Hamas-Israel war

Hamas-run health ministry says 6 killed in Israeli air raids in Rafah

A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egyptian NGOs for Palestinians start to move from Al-Arish to Rafah city as they wait for an agreement on the opening on the Rafah border crossing to enter Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the city of Al-Arish, Sinai peninsula, Egypt, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
Hamas-Israel war

Details of deal on Gaza aid still being worked out: US

A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egyptian NGOs for Palestinians start to move from Al-Arish to Rafah city as they wait for an agreement on the opening on the Rafah border crossing to enter Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the city of Al-Arish, Sinai peninsula, Egypt, October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
Hamas-Israel war

Aid to move over Egyptian border unlikely to raise spirits in struggling Gaza

A Palestinian with dual citizenship waits outside the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the hope of getting permission to leave Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Explainer

Why Gaza's Rafah border crossing matters

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egyptian NGOs for Palestinians, wait for the reopening of the Rafah crossing at the Egyptian side, to enter Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Egypt repairing roads at Gaza crossing ahead of aid delivery