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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi proposes a temporary two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages for several Palestinian prisoners.
2024-10-27

Israeli troops and tanks enter Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Displaced families in the region are heading further south to Rafah, a town on the Egyptian border.
2023-12-5

A fuel truck enters the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Crossing from Egypt for the first time since the war began.
2023-11-15

About 500 people, including injured Palestinians, foreigners and dual Palestinian–foreign nationals, are evacuated from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Crossing to Egypt, marking the border crossing's first opening since the war began.
2023-11-1

The Palestinian National Authority confirms the first cases of COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip. Both patients are Palestinian men in their 30s who recently returned from Egypt. They are being held in quarantine in the border town of Rafah.
2020-03-22

An airstrike hits a tunnel in the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border, killing at least two people and injuring five more. It is unclear who launched the airstrike.
2017-02-9

The Israeli Navy boards two ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists en route to the Gaza Strip.
2011-11-4

A ship bound from Libya, the "Al-Amal", due to deliver humanitarian aid from Algeria, Morocco and Nigeria to the Gaza Strip, changes course for Egypt after being warned to stay away by the Israeli Navy and receiving pressure from the United States to "act responsibly".
2010-07-13

Teenager from the Gaza Strip who was alleged to have been killed by IDF soldiers last week, released from an Egyptian prison, after infiltrating the Egyptian border through an underground tunnel and saying that he and several Palestinian teenagers who were with him were tortured by Egyptian soldiers while in prison.
2010-04-6

Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin makes history as he leads a 10-member delegation to Gaza via Egypt, becoming the first EU Foreign Minister to visit since the 2009 Israeli assault after having previously been refused entry by Israel. He calls on Israel to end the blockade.
2010-02-25