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Fifteen people are killed and 60 others are injured by an Israeli airstrike against a convoy of ambulances en route from al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip to Rafah, Egypt.
2023-11-3

Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire in order to stop airstrikes in Gaza and the launching of rockets in Israel. The 11 days of conflict have killed 232 people in Gaza and 11 in Israel. Egypt agrees to observe the implementation of the ceasefire.
2021-05-20

Egyptian authorities arrest Mahmoud Ezzat, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was serving a sentence "in absentia" and was detained in a hideout in Cairo.
2020-08-28

Hamas, through Egyptian-mediated talks, agrees to dissolve its Gaza administration, hold talks with the Fatah West Bank government, and hold elections for a Palestinian unity government.
2017-09-17

The Egyptian government closes the Rafah border crossing with Gaza and will set up a buffer zone after a series of attacks which were reported to have been launched using smuggling tunnels from Gaza.
2014-10-26

An Egyptian court sentences 155 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to prison, including 54 life sentences.
2014-05-21

Three judges in Egypt chairing the trial of the leaders Muslim Brotherhood step down, citing reasons of conscience.
2013-10-29

A Palestinian man is killed by the collapse of a smuggling tunnel under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
2010-08-29

Thousands of Palestinians cross the Rafah Border Crossing into the Gaza Strip following its opening by Egypt, but Egypt prevents hundreds of activists from entering and Hamas continues to refuse Red Cross visits for captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.
2010-06-12

An 18-year-old dies and six others escape with their lives in Rafah, Gaza, after the collapse of two tunnels used to smuggle goods through Egypt and around Egypt's and Israel's blockade.
2010-04-7