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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Kerem Shalom Crossing

This aerial view shows displaced Palestinians returning to Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 19, 2025, 4:10 pm
Gazans stream home through rubble as truce starts after 15 months of war
Carrying their personal belongings, displaced residents of the Strip celebrate deal; hundreds of aid trucks enter enclave from Egypt
By AFP and ToI Staff
An IDF facility in southern Israel where released hostages will receive initial treatment, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on January 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 18, 2025, 10:33 pm
With doctors and therapists: Army completes preparations to receive hostages
Three complexes set up near Gaza border, where freed captives will receive initial treatment before being taken to the hospital
By Emanuel Fabian
An Israeli truck transporting aid destined for the Gaza Strip arriving at a drop-off area near the Kerem Shalom crossing, on November 28, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
December 1, 2024, 4:27 pm
UNRWA pauses aid deliveries via key Israeli crossing due to looting inside Gaza
Head of UN agency says route via Kerem Shalom no longer safe, largely blames Israel; Jerusalem downplays announcement, says only 7% of aid via crossing is coordinated with UNRWA
By Agencies and ToI Staff
View of the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area in southern Gaza's Rafah, October 20, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
November 29, 2024, 6:31 am
Increasingly flexible Hamas said open to temporary IDF presence at Gaza-Egypt border
As long-moribund ceasefire talks ramp up, New York Times says terror group may give up core demands after ‘reality started to sink in’ following Sinwar’s death and truce in Lebanon
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinians evacuate patients from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for the area on August 26, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
October 18, 2024, 3:15 pm
High Court tells state to draw up formal procedure for Gaza medical evacuations
Human rights groups noted in a June petition that 14,000 Gazan civilians are in need of medical treatment outside Gaza; only 225 have since been evacuated
By Jeremy Sharon
A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip passes through the Kerem Shalom border crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, on June 17, 2024. (Ahikam Seri/AFP)
August 6, 2024, 10:59 pm
5 troops hurt in missile strike, prompting closure of road to Gaza humanitarian zone
Two soldiers in serious condition; IDF temporarily closes route from crossing to area used to deliver aid to Palestinians; PIJ fires 3 rockets at southern communities, none hurt
By Emanuel Fabian
Palestinians walk with water and food through a heavily damaged residential district of the Gaza Strip's southern city of Khan Younis, July 5, 2024. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)
July 11, 2024, 2:40 pm
Commercial goods trucked into Gaza as Israel and UN trade blame for logjams
With Kerem Shalom bearing brunt of burden from Rafah crossing’s closure, COGAT says private sector working better than aid groups, as UNRWA decries ‘prioritization’ of markets
By AFP and ToI Staff
A bundle of humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip with the logo of World Central Kitchen (WCK) on a truck at the Kerem Shalom border crossing in southern Israel, on May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
June 16, 2024, 11:02 am
IDF announces daily pause in fighting along key south Gaza road to increase aid flow
Military stresses operations against Hamas in Rafah continue despite 11-hour pause each day on route leading from Kerem Shalom to Khan Younis
By Emanuel Fabian
Screen capture from video of Egyptian aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing, May 26, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 26, 2024, 12:55 pm
Aid starts flowing into Gaza from Egypt via Israel’s Kerem Shalom Crossing
Egyptian Red Crescent says 200 aid trucks, including four fuel tankers, to enter coastal enclave over course of day; IDF says aid deliveries to Gaza nearly doubled last week
By Agencies and ToI Staff
FILE - Humanitarian aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah, January 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
May 24, 2024, 10:53 pm
In Biden call, Egypt’s Sissi agrees to release Gaza aid via Israel amid Rafah closure
White House says move ‘will help save lives’; leaders also discuss ‘new initiatives to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza’
By Jacob Magid
File - People holding Israeli flags stand in front of trucks carrying humanitarian aid as they try to stop them from entering the Gaza Strip near the Kerem Shalom border crossing, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
May 15, 2024, 7:33 pm
Israeli delegation visits Cairo in bid to mend growing rift over capture of Rafah Crossing
No word on progress after countries traded accusations on closure of key crossing for Gaza aid
By ToI Staff
IDF troops operate in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout image released May 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 9, 2024, 7:08 pm
IDF: 150,000 Palestinians have left east Rafah; raid uncovers 10 tunnel shafts
Army says troops also clearing Gaza City suburb of Hamas infrastructure; Israel says crossings open to humanitarian aid trucks, but UN claims none entered Strip in past 24 hours
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip pass through the inspection area at the Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
May 8, 2024, 11:11 am
IDF says Kerem Shalom Crossing reopened to Gaza aid, days after attack forced closure
Netanyahu had assured Biden the crossing would be reopened; Rafah Crossing with Egypt remains closed amid IDF operation there
By Emanuel Fabian
US soldiers assemble the Roll-On, Roll-Off Distribution Facility (RRDF), or floating pier, off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea on April 26, 2024. (US Army via AP)
May 8, 2024, 1:43 am
US completes construction of Gaza aid pier, but weather preventing installation
Pentagon says ready ‘in the near future’ to move dock, which IDF troops will anchor to shore so no American boots are on the ground
By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
US President Joe Biden (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
May 6, 2024, 11:32 pm
Biden calls PM to reiterate opposition to Rafah op after IDF orders partial evacuation
Call also focuses on hostage talks, which were subsequently shaken up with Hamas announcement claiming to accept ceasefire proposal; Netanyahu agrees to reopen Kerem Shalom Crossing
By Jacob Magid
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