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A United Nations report said Thursday that Israel kept the Rafah crossing terminal closed half of the scheduled opening days between 4 and April17. The Office of Coordination of Humanitarian…
Two Palestinian men were killed in Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza strip due to armed clashes between rival families in the city on Thursday midday. Palestinian…
One Palestinian man was killed in Rafah city in the southern part of the Gaza strip due to armed clashes between rival families in the city on Thursday midday. Medical…
Official Egyptian sources reported on Monday that Egyptian border-guards arrested one Palestinian who allegedly crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt through one of two tunnels that were recently dug…
Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, announced Saturday the death of a local resident due to wounds he sustained three years ago during an Israeli army invasion…
Israeli gunboats wounded Thursday two Palestinian fishermen who were on board their boats on the Rafah shoreline in the southern Gaza Strip. Local hospital sources confirmed the injury of two…
Palestinian medical sources at Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported on Monday night that five residents were shot and injured…
The head of the European observers at the Rafah crossing terminal, General Pietro Pistolese, said Sunday that if Israel continues closure of the Rafah crossing terminal in the southern Gaza…
The Rafah crossing will be reopened on Monday morning from both sides Palestinian sources reported. Nathmi Muhana, the director of the borders and crossing control in the Palestinian Authority told…
On Tuesday morning, the Israeli naval forces abducted five Palestinian fishermen near the shores of the costal city of Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza strip. Local sources…
Palestinian medical sources confirmed that an 8 year-old girl was shot dead and two women were wounded in a crossfire during tribal clashes in Rafah city, in the southern Gaza…
Palestinian sources reported that one Palestinian man was killed and other two injured when an underground tunnel collapsed on them near the Palestinian Egyptian border in Rafah city in the…
Israel abruptly closed Tuesday morning the Rafah crossing terminal, Gaza’s sole outlet to the outside world, after the crossing was reopened yesterday for three days. Israel abruptly closed Tuesday morning…
On Thursday the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border was re-opened after a day’s closure. As hoards of Palestinian civilians accumulated, panic erupted amidst Israeli troops’ attempt to achieve calm…
Palestinian sources reported that an Israeli war-ship opened heavy gunfire at Palestinian fishing boats and civilians at Tal Al Sultan beach, on the Rafah city coast in the southern Gaza…
Palestinian sources at Rafah border crossing, in the southren Gaza strip, stated that the crossing was reopened on Monday morning. Wa’el Dahap, the spokesperson of the Palestinian groups working at…
The European third party which monitors the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has re-opened the crossing after it was closed by Isreali troops at noon on Tuesday. No…
The Israeli naval army abduct three fishermen from their on board their boat on Tuesday, near the southern Gaza Strip shore of Rafah, Palestinian security sources said. The Israeli naval…
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza strip was reopened on Monday morning and will stay open until five PM. The sources added that…
Murad Al Akhras, 20, Aqsa brigades resistance fighter, was shot and injured after being targeted by a group of unknown gunmen in Rafah city south of the Gaza strip on…
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday that the Rafah Border Crossing, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Thursday morning on both directions for five continuous days.…
Israeli army gunboats have abducted three Palestinian fishermen off the Rafah seashore on Tuesday at dawn. The three were identified as Ayman Al Ejbur, Isma'el Basalah, and his brother Samer,…
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli army navel boats have abducted three Palestinian brothers near Rafah beach south of the Gaza strip on Saturday. Majied Farahat, his two brothers Mohamed and…
Palestinian security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday evening that the Rafah terminal, between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, will be opened on Saturday on both directions from…
The Rafah Border Crossing, in southern Gaza Strip connecting Gaza to Egypt, was shut down by European monitors on Thursday midday after Palestinian Prime Minister Isma'el Haniyeh passed through the…
The Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, which is the only way in or out of the Strip, was reopened on Thursday morning from both sides. Palestinian Sources…
Hundreds of Palestinians are lining up at the Rafah Crossing to make their way to the Holy City of Mecca for the Hajj (Islamic Religious Pilgrimage). Today was the first…
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli soldiers reopened the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and that residents started crossing on both…
Wa'el Abu Al Thahab, media spokesperson of the border crossing and the presidential guards, reported on Thursday, that Israel closed the Rafah Border Crossing, linking between Egypt and Gaza Strip.…
Palestinian security sources reported that the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip was reopened on Wednesday morning. The Rafah crossing, which is the only way…
[My son] Yousuf and I, along with my parents, left the US to Gaza nearly 3 weeks ago. For two of those weeks, we have been stuck 50 km from…
The Israeli army re-closed the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday morning south of the Gaza strip after opening it Tuesday after noon. On Tuesday Palestinian sources reproted that an agreement…
Israeli army naval boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen boats near the coast of Rafah beach, in southern Gaza and injured one on Wednesday at dawn. The fishermen reported that…
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Minister of the so-called “Strategic Threats” said that Israeli must repossess the Rafah Border Crossing and the Philadelphi Route in the southern part of the Gaza…
Israeli troops operating in Rafah at the southern border of the Gaza Strip attacked and took over one Palestinian home on Monday morning. Soldiers took over the roof top of…
Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported on Thursday morning that the European monitors came back to the Rafah border crossing and reopened it on Thursday morning. The crossing was opened…
Palestinian sources reported that the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, was reopened both on Tuesday from eight in the morning until five in the…
Palestinian security sources reported on Tuesday morning that the Israeli army has reopened the Rafah border crossing in the south of the Gaza strip. The source added that the crossing…
The Ramattan News Agency reported that Israeli tanks and vehicles withdrew on Saturday at dawn from the area surrounding the Rafah Border Crossing, in the southern part of the Gaza…