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Israeli troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a handout photo dated September 20, 2025 (Israel Defense Forces)
September 20, 2025, 6:18 pm
Israel presses Gaza op, said to ask US to rein in Egyptian military buildup in Sinai
Netanyahu said to raise concerns with US secretary of state about Cairo’s recent construction, including runways and underground sites
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AP
Gazan patients and their family members board flights to Italy and Romania on March 19, 2025. (Twitter/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Act)
May 9, 2025, 1:27 pm
Israel claims it’s promoting Palestinian emigration from Gaza. So why are so few leaving?
Despite saying it would act on Trump’s plan to depopulate the Strip, Israel has allowed around 600 people out since March, after months-long efforts by humanitarian groups and foreign governments
By Nurit Yohanan
A view of the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area in Rafah, on June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
July 16, 2024, 10:52 am
Israeli negotiators to head for more hostage talks despite Deif assassination attempt
Negotiation leader Mossad chief David Barnea reportedly being kept back amid uncertainty over talks; Israel reportedly to mull new framework for withdrawal from Egypt-Gaza border
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A view of the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area in Rafah, on June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
July 12, 2024, 3:42 pm
Netanyahu’s office denies report Israel open to pullout from Gaza-Egypt border
PMO insists IDF will remain on Philadelphi Corridor, after Reuters cites Egyptian sources that say installing surveillance equipment to prevent smuggling would lead to IDF withdrawal
By ToI Staff, Reuters and Jacob Magid
Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout image published May 29, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 29, 2024, 10:51 pm
IDF takes control of key Gaza-Egypt border road, locating at least 20 tunnels
Military spokesman Daniel Hagari says Hamas positioned rocket launchers in ‘Philadelphi Route’ hoping to dissuade Israel from striking close to the Egyptian border
By Emanuel Fabian
Egyptian activists hold bread as they participate in a pro-Palestinian protest outside the building of the Journalist Syndicate in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohamed El Raai)
April 5, 2024, 6:58 pm
Ten arrested at Egypt pro-Gaza rally calling for severing ties with Israel
Demonstrators accuse Cairo of taking part in the siege of Gaza, call to expel Israeli ambassador
By AP
Illustrative: Protesters raise signs in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Egyptian army officers and bodyguards escort UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to his vehicle, during a visit to oversee preparations for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave, on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border on October 20, 2023. (Kerolos Salah/AFP)
March 23, 2024, 1:41 am
UN chief to issue fresh call for ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ while visiting Gaza border
Guterres to tour Egyptian side of Rafah as part of ‘annual Ramadan solidarity trip,’ will later visit UNRWA facilities in Jordan in wake of terror allegations against some staffers
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Staff Sgt. Noam Haba of the Paratrooper Brigade's 202nd Battalion, who the IDF announced was killed fighting in southern Gaza on February 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 16, 2024, 3:00 pm
IDF arrests dozens of Oct. 7 terrorists in Gaza hospital; paratrooper killed in combat
Second soldier seriously hurt in battle that kills Staff Sgt. Noam Haba, 20; weaponry found inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza; Hamas says 5 patients have died
By ToI Staff
Video published by the New York Times on February 15, 2024, shows Egyptian construction vehicles working on a new wall, south of Gaza's Rafah. (New York Times video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 16, 2024, 6:39 am
Egypt reportedly building walled enclosure in case masses of Gazans flee to Sinai
Egyptian officials tell WSJ that enclosed site could house over 100,000 people, as Cairo makes contingency plans ahead of expected Israeli operation in Gaza’s southernmost city
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi speaks while meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
October 15, 2023, 6:37 pm
Egypt’s Sissi says Israel’s Gaza campaign has gone ‘beyond right to self-defense’
Meeting Blinken, Egyptian leader criticizes ‘collective punishment’ in Strip, falsely claims Egyptian Jews were never persecuted and resists accepting Palestinians to its territory
By Agencies, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)
September 3, 2021, 9:28 pm
Hamas says Egypt caused Gaza tunnel collapse, killing 3
Palestinian groups say Egyptian forces pumped gas into the tunnel; Cairo, which has sought to clamp down on border smuggling, has yet to comment on incident
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian worker checks a truck carrying United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) aid supplies that arrived through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel to the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on May 12, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)
August 20, 2021, 11:37 am
53 Dem lawmakers say US must ensure Israel, Egypt let aid into ‘occupied Gaza’
Congressmen urge a ‘full reopening’ of border crossings; Israel recently eased import restrictions to the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave following May’s war
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
A Palestinian man cuts wood using a chainsaw in a traditional charcoal production site in the town of Jabaliya, Northern Gaza Strip, January 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
January 15, 2021, 9:44 am
With power crisis, out-of-work woodcutters see opportunity in Gaza
Tight Israeli-Egyptian blockade, weak ties with PA have resulted in unreliable power, driving up demand for wood in winter
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Ambassador Amira Oron in front of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt, in an undated photo. The provided photo has been digitally altered by The Times of Israel for artistic effect. (Courtesy: Amira Oron)
January 10, 2021, 11:31 am
With an outstretched hand, an ambassador brings Israel back into Egypt
Returning to Cairo as Jerusalem’s top diplomat there, Amira Oron says there are plenty of opportunities to broaden ties and sees Egyptians finally warming up to the Jewish state
By Tal Schneider
An ambulance drives past a member of security forces loyal to Hamas, the terror group that rules the Gaza Strip, at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on April 13, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)
April 13, 2020, 8:01 pm
Hamas reopens Egypt border crossing shuttered due to virus
Rafah terminal to be open for 4 days, allowing hundreds of Palestinians to enter Strip; those returning required to quarantine for 21 days
By AFP and ToI Staff
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