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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

Three people are killed and 32 others are injured after a fire in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt.
2023-02-1

At least two people are killed in an attack on the border between Israel and Egypt.
2012-06-18

Egypt's supreme court calls for the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and for fresh elections after ruling that last year's parliamentary vote was unconstitutional.
2012-06-14

Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the third round of voting for the lower house of the national parliament.
2012-01-3

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party claims to have won a majority of seats in the runoff election.
2011-12-7

Islamist parties win the first stage of the Egyptian parliamentary election, with the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Freedom and Justice Party first at 37% of the vote, and the more hardline Salafi Al-Nour Party in second place with 24% of the vote.
2011-12-4

Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil is sentenced to three years in prison by a military court for criticising the army.
2011-04-11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will send deputy prime-minister to a summit on nuclear weapons in the United States over concerns that Egypt and Turkey might shift the focus away from preventing militants from obtaining nuclear weapons by insisting that Israel sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
2010-04-8