Border official: Egypt opens Gaza crossing to someIBRAHIM BARZAK
However, no U.S. citizens or other foreign nationals who have been stranded in Gazasince the war beganwere allowed to cross into Egypt. U.S. passport holder Leila Bsiso, who is among hundreds of Americans who have been stranded at the Gaza-Egypt border for weeks, said she and her famil...
A Palestinian boy looks out from a bus window as he waits to enter Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on March 23, 2018. The Egyptian authorities on Friday temporarily opened the Rafah crossing on the border with the Gaza Strip in both directions for humanitarian cases. ...
Palestinians wait for travel permits to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 11, 2017. The Egyptian authorities on Saturday opened Rafah crossing border with the Gaza Strip for humanitarian cases for three days, officials said. (Xinhua/Khaled Omar)...
A planeload of World Health Organization supplies has landed at Egypt’s el-Arish airport and is destined for Gaza when humanitarian access across the border is possible, the U.N. said Saturday. The cache includes enough basic essentials for 300,000 people and enough trauma medicines and materi...
That is unlikely to be enough. To save as many lives as possible, Egypt should also open the Rafah crossing to Palestinians wanting to flee temporarily from Gaza. It is easy to find reasons to object to such a plan. Palestinians understandably fear that they may never be allowed home. The...
Rafah Crossing to open for evacuation of some foreign nationals out of Gaza, UK foreign minister says A general view of the Rafah border crossing point with Egypt, as Palestinians with dual citizenship waits outside the Rafah border crossing, in the hope of getting permission to leave Gaza,...
7,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. A year later, the militant Islamist group Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections. When Hamas took over in Gaza, Israel imposed a blockade on the territory, restricting the movement of goods and people, and Egypt blockaded the southern border. ...
(league of five cities). There the biblical hero Samson perished while toppling the temple of the god Dagon. Because of its strategic position on the Via Maris, the ancient coastal road linking Egypt with Palestine and the lands beyond, Gaza experienced little peace in antiquity; it fell, ...
The border has been closed since the Hamas attack on Israel last weekend. But crowds of dual nationals are anxiously waiting to be evacuated as news spread an agreement had been reached.