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EUBAM European Union Border Assistance Mission

Palestinians move through the Rafah Crossing as a European Union official looks on, February 2026. (EUBAM)
February 15, 2026, 4:50 pm
Amid snags, EU mission tries to help frustrated Gazans traverse Rafah’s tortuous crossing
EUBAM head Nataliya Apostolova acknowledges complaints but says operations at reopened terminal are steadily improving, in close coordination with authorities in Jerusalem and Cairo
By Lazar Berman
A Palestinian child looks out of a bus window transporting patients and war-wounded, as it heads towards the Rafah crossing to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment abroad, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 2, 2026. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)
February 3, 2026, 2:29 pm
12 people let into Gaza from Egypt, of 42 who tried, on day 1 of Rafah opening – report
Diplomatic official tells ToI just 12 crossed in each direction, far lower than the quota; report says those who entered Gaza were escorted by armed men to IDF checkpoint
By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, AFP and ToI Staff
Ambulances wait in line at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian Gaza Strip, in northeastern Egypt, on February 2, 2026. (AFP)
February 2, 2026, 1:54 pm
‘A lifeline’: Gazans rejoice as Rafah Crossing opens for limited pedestrian passage
Gazans welcome the opening as a milestone, although only limited crossings allowed for now; some 50 people expected to cross each way on first day
By Emanuel Fabian, Jacob Magid and Agencies
A view of the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, February 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)
February 1, 2026, 1:03 pm
Rafah Crossing opens after over a year, with limited pedestrian passage to start Monday
COGAT says ‘pilot program’ assessing operation of crossing, as Palestinian security officers join EU mission on Gazan side of border gate to oversee mechanism
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian police march during a training session with members of the European Union, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 16, 2014. (Abbas Momani / AFP)
December 2, 2025, 4:30 am
Egypt and EU stepping up preparations to dispatch Palestinian police force to Gaza
Diplomats push back at claim Hamas members to be part of new body, as Cairo trains thousands of recruits and Brussels looks to join effort, possibly influence postwar Strip
By Nava Freiberg
The flag of Egypt sways in the wind on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip on September 9, 2024. (AFP)
October 13, 2025, 1:55 pm
EU says its monitoring mission at Rafah pedestrian crossing to restart Wednesday
‘The EU stands ready to do its part,’ top diplomat Kaja Kallas says as bloc aims to provide a neutral, third-party presence at key Egypt-Gaza crossing point
By AFP and Emanuel Fabian
Egyptian ambulances cross the Rafah border crossing toward Gaza on February 1, 2025, to transport Palestinian patients out of the Strip. (Kerolos Salah/AFP)
October 10, 2025, 3:34 pm
EU-monitored pedestrian crossing on Gaza-Egypt border to reopen next week
Italian defense minister says passage through Rafah crossing will be available to all, subject to Israel and Egypt’s approval
By AFP
Members of Palestinan security forces stand guard at the closed off Rafah border crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 23, 2021 (Said Khatib/AFP)
July 7, 2023, 2:26 am
Once representing hope, an EU mission in Gaza is symbol of sputtering Western vision
EUBAM unit was deployed to border crossing in preparation for Palestinian independence, but two-state vision is increasingly losing out to notion of a single, shared entity
By Josef Federman
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