The Rafah crossing has been shuttered for over eight months before as part of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

EU restarts monitoring the key border crossing which has been closed to people since May 2024 amid Israel’s war on Gaza.

CAIRO, January 31. /TASS/. Egypt will open the Rafah checkpoint on the border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Palestinian side of the border crossing will be managed by the Palestinian National Authority, Egypt’s Al-Qahira Al-Ekhbariya said.

Experts discuss how long rebuilding Gaza's $18.5 billion of damaged infrastructure could take after 15 months of conflict.

Trump floated the idea on Saturday, saying he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to take in Gaza’s now largely homeless population, so that “we just clean out that whole thing.”

The corpses keep coming every day, sometimes dozens at a time brought to morgues in the Palestinian enclave, after being pried from under 15 months of rubble and pulled from battle zones long too dangerous for search-and-rescue teams to reach.

The organization representing families of hostages held in the Gaza strip is celebrating the news that three male hostages would be released Saturday as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

GENEVA: The UN Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza was still ongoing on Friday (Jan 31) despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it described as hostility towards its staff.

The organization representing families of hostages held in the Gaza strip is celebrating the news that three male hostages would be released Saturday as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel

The mass mobilization, described as the largest of its kind, is a direct response to Trump’s controversial rhetoric. Activists have hailed the demonstration as a “powerful rejection” of the displacement plan and a “reaffirmation of Egypt’s longstanding commitment to Palestinian rights.”