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Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories.Sign up here. Egypt is facing ...
That Egypt won’t open its border for a humanitarian corridor to let out hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Gazans reflect serious, and legitimate, concerns, write Ghaith al-Omari and ...
As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 attack, some ask why neighboring Egypt and Jordan ...
The blockade of the Gaza Strip is a system of restrictions on movement and goods in Gaza imposed by Israel since the early 1990s. [1] After Hamas took over in 2007, Israel significantly intensified existing movement restrictions and imposed a complete blockade on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip. [2]
After Hamas kidnapped Gilad Shalit, the Rafah border was closed on 25 June 2006, although the incident did not happen in Rafah. Since then, the crossing was only irregularly opened for very limited cases. The border was never opened for the passage of goods. [11] When Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, Egypt and Israel closed the borders ...
At least six UK citizens killed and 10 missing, says Sunak. Israel’s stance not allowing Egypt to open Gaza border, Cairo says ... Lessons from the Yom Kippur war, 50 years on – and why it ...
The Rafah Border Crossing is the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It has been closed for the transfer of commercial goods since 2007, and Egypt maintained that it would only open the crossing if forces from the Palestinian Authority presidential guard and a European supervisory force returned to guard the border crossing. [11]
UK Border Force agents are in Egypt on a mercy mission to help stricken British nationals escape from Gaza as soon as a crossing opens, Rishi Sunak has revealed.. Around 200 British nationals are ...