Sources: Arab News Ynet
Israel says it will reopen the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, allowing Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip. 2025-12-3
An Egyptian border guard is killed in a shootout at the Rafah Border Crossing. 2024-05-27
Israeli forces enter Rafah in a "limited" operation, taking control of the Rafah Border Crossing on the Egypt–Gaza border. 2024-05-7
Hamas releases two Israeli hostages following mediation by Qatar and Egypt. The pair were taken to the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. 2023-10-23
Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs, announces that US-backed efforts to re-open the Rafah border crossing have failed, citing Israel's refusal to guarantee the safety of incoming aid convoys and outgoing foreign nationals. 2023-10-16
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt denies rumors that the Rafah border crossing is closed, asserting that the crossing remains operational and has not been closed since the beginning of the blockade. The ministry also calls upon the international community to send humanitarian aid to Palestine through the El Arish International Airport. 2023-10-12
Four Egyptian security personnel are killed and another four are injured by a roadside bomb near the border town Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula. Islamist militants are suspected to have remotely detonated the device as an armored vehicle drove by the town's center, near the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel, security sources told Ahram Online. 2015-12-8
Hundreds of Palestinians are stranded by Egypt's "indefinite" closure of Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip. 2013-08-15
Israel opposes Egypt's plan to open the Rafah Border Crossing with Gaza to two-way traffic due to its fears of "terror operatives". 2011-05-1
Egypt's interim foreign minister Nabil al-Arabi vows to permanently open the country's Rafah Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip, branding the Mubarak regime's support for the previous blockade and assisting of Israel in implementing it as "disgraceful". 2011-04-29