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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Rafah Border Crossing

Demonstrators gather outside the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on January 31, 2025, to protest against a plan floated by US President Donald Trump to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. (Kerolos Salah/AFP)
June 12, 2025, 4:21 pm
Egyptian authorities detain hundreds of activists planning march to Gaza
Organizers say participants from US, Australia, France, Spain among those questioned by police ahead of Friday march toward Rafah Crossing to demand entry of humanitarian aid
By AFP
People cheer as a convoy of buses from North Africa depart from Tunisia to Gaza to break Israel's blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory, in Gabes, Tunisia, June 9, 2025. (AP)
June 12, 2025, 3:33 am
Katz urges Egypt to block Gaza-bound activist convoys
Cairo says it backs ‘pressure on Israel’ to lift blockade but stresses foreigners seeking to visit border with Strip must receive official approval
By AFP and ToI Staff
Members of a convoy en route to Gaza wave Palestinian flags from a bus as the group travels toward Egypt's Rafah Crossing, in Zawiya, Libya on June 10, 2025. (AP/Yousef Murad)
June 11, 2025, 6:30 pm
Gaza-bound land convoy arrives in Libya, headed to Rafah to defy Israel’s aid blockade
Over 1,000 taking part in North African bus and car convoy in a ‘symbolic act’ challenging blockade; more expected to join as caravan passes through Libya and Egypt
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A truck driver waits with others carrying mobile homes on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing in preparation for entering Gaza, at the Rafah border crossing, Egypt, February 18, 2025. (Mayar Mokhtar/AP)
February 18, 2025, 6:43 pm
Heavy construction equipment said to begin rolling into Gaza
Mobile homes also expected to be delivered to enclave as demanded by Hamas; FM Sa’ar says talks for second stage of ceasefire to start this week
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Bulldozers and trucks carrying mobile homes wait to enter Gaza at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohamed Arafat)
February 16, 2025, 11:09 am
PM refused to approve entry of mobile homes, earthmoving equipment to Gaza – report
Political official says issue to be discussed, after Hamas briefly balked at releasing hostages and claimed Israel violated truce by barring bulldozers, trailers from Strip
By ToI Staff
Wounded Palestinians and caregivers sit on a bus as they prepare to cross through the Rafah crossing into Egypt, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
February 1, 2025, 3:06 pm
After 9 months, Rafah Border Crossing reopens for patients to leave Gaza for Egypt
Hamas-run authorities say sick, wounded children and carers evacuated through gateway; reports say injured Hamas fighters also set to cross under terms of hostage-ceasefire deal
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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)
January 31, 2025, 7:47 pm
Gaza’s Rafah crossing set to reopen Saturday, to be run by PA with EU monitors
Officials say crossing will initially be opened for 50 injured Hamas operatives and 50 wounded civilians
By Agencies
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)
January 28, 2025, 2:26 am
EU to redeploy monitors at Rafah Border Crossing in bid to bolster Gaza ceasefire
Italy says monitoring mission, which was halted when Hamas seized control of Strip in 2007, ‘was launched at the request of Israel and the PA’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian security forces take up positions to secure a rally by Fatah supporters in the West Bank city of Nablus, January 5, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
January 22, 2025, 3:05 pm
Israel downplays PA role in postwar Gaza, denies promising Saudis a Palestinian state
PM’s office partially refutes report claiming Palestinian Authority to control Rafah Crossing; Ron Dermer says there is ‘no promise’ to Riyadh on establishing Palestinian state
By Amy Spiro
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
PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, September 26, 2024. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images via AFP)
January 18, 2025, 1:37 am
Abbas: PA ready to assume ‘full responsibility’ in Gaza Strip when ceasefire begins
President of Palestinian Authority, which isn’t a party to the Israel-Hamas deal, said to issue 4-page document outlining his West Bank-based government’s plans for ruling Gaza
By AFP and Jacob Magid
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
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar attends a farewell ceremony in honor of then-police chief Kobi Shabtai (not pictured), at the National Police Academy in Beit Shemesh, on July 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 14, 2024, 11:31 am
Shin Bet head met with Egypt intel chief over stalled hostage deal talks – report
Ronen Bar said to hold discussions in Cairo with Abbas Kamel on engaging with Hamas’s Sinwar, resolving contentious issues of Rafah Border Crossing and Philadelphi Corridor
By ToI Staff
Egyptian army soldiers guard their side of the Rafah crossing, closed since early May, on July 4, 2024. (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP)
August 11, 2024, 8:42 am
Egypt pushing for Palestinian Authority to take over Gaza’s Rafah Crossing – report
Plan said to be first step in larger move enabling PA to take over other strategic areas of Strip after war against Hamas ends
By ToI Staff
Supporters and relatives of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip since October lift placards during a rally to demand their release in Tel Aviv on August 3, 2024. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
August 7, 2024, 4:17 am
Netanyahu accused of undercutting Israeli credibility in Gaza truce talks
Officials say assurances to Qatar, Egypt and US made by security chiefs representing Jerusalem have been abandoned once the prime minister is consulted, gumming up negotiations
By Jacob Magid
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