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Amid pressure from the United States, Israel reopens the Erez-Beit Hanoun Crossing and allows aid trucks into the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
2024-05-1

Israel intensifies strikes on Rafah ahead of a planned ground offensive.
2024-04-25

Twenty-two people are killed, including 18 children, in overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, according to local health officials.
2024-04-21

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered an invasion of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip with a date "being set" for the ground offensive.
2024-04-8

The International Court of Justice, in a unanimous decision, orders Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip unimpeded, warning that famine is already occurring.
2024-03-28

Israeli special forces conduct a raid on a building in Rafah, rescuing two Israeli-Argentinian hostages.
2024-02-12

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

In response to the mortars fired into Israel that hit a government building, Israeli warplanes bomb smuggling tunnels between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, with one person being wounded in an air attack in Rafah.
2010-06-25

Egypt lifts its closure on the Gaza Strip, allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza via Rafah and Israel eases its blockade of the Gaza Strip for food items.
2010-06-9

After Palestinians fire a Qassam rocket that explodes in an open area of the city of Ashkelon, Israeli planes launch air strikes on several targets in the Gaza Strip, in locations which include Gaza City, Khan Yunis and Rafah.
2010-04-1