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Over 100 Palestinians, Including Injured, Cross Rafah Border Into Egypt

The recent reopening of the Rafah crossing allowed over 100 injured Palestinians to access critical medical care outside of Gaza, showcasing international ...

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Palestinian patients enter Egypt as Rafah crossing opens after nine months

Gaza’s Health Ministry says group of 50 patients and their attendants are in Egypt for medical treatment abroad.

Al Jazeera

Sick and wounded children begin crossing from Gaza to Egypt in first opening in months

A group of 50 sick and wounded Palestinian children began crossing through Gaza’s Rafah crossing into Egypt on Saturday for treatment in the first opening of the border since Israel captured it nearly nine months ago

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Palestinian Patients Evacuated For Urgent Medical Treatment

Palestinian patients evacuated for urgent medical treatment at Rafah crossing with WHO assistance.

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Key Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopening for medical evacuations

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

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Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza as he restarts policy to give Israel new bombs

Trump has built his political career around being unapologetically pro-Israel

The Independent UK

With the ceasefire in Gaza comes a gruesome challenge: Counting and collecting the dead

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

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Gaza ceasefire brings bittersweet relief to Texans with ties to the war-torn region

Israeli and Palestinian supporters in Texas welcome the tenuous halt to the war sparked by a 2023 attack with cautious optimism.

The Texas Tribune

Israel To Maintain Control Of Rafah Crossing With Egypt

Israel maintains control of Rafah border crossing during ceasefire with Hamas, while UN reports smooth aid deliveries into Gaza.

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Middle East latest: Israel says it will maintain control of Gaza-Egypt crossing

Israel says it will maintain control of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the ceasefire with Hamas

The Independent UK

‘Skull without a jaw’: Gaza survivors search for what remains of the dead

Palestinians are taking the opportunity provided by the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to search for the remains of loved ones.

Al Jazeera

Palestinians hoping to return to Gaza’s Rafah find city in ruins

As an Israel-Hamas ceasefire begins, rubble is all that’s left in large swaths of southern Gaza’s Rafah.

Al Jazeera

After Celebrations, Displaced Gazans Return Home To Destruction

Columns of people hundreds strong were making their way home in northern Gaza on Sunday, flanked on both sides by countless buildings turned to rubble, as a ceasefire took effect in the Palestinian territory.

International Business Times

Palestinians in Gaza desperate to travel abroad for life-saving treatment

Patients eagerly await the reopening of the Rafah crossing to get the critical medical care they need to survive.

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Israeli Forces Withdraw From Parts Of Rafah Ahead Of Ceasefire

Israeli forces withdraw from Rafah before ceasefire. Netanyahu demands hostage list for truce.

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Displaced Palestinians Hopeful For Ceasefire Deal To End Year-Long War

Displaced Palestinians in Rafah express hope for the ceasefire deal to bring an end to the conflict and restore normalcy in their lives.

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We didn’t make it to the Paralympics, but we still have hope: the Gazan paracyclist

As part of the Guardian’s Gaza Voices series this year, Hazem Suleiman told of how the roads he trained on had been destroyed. Now, he’s raising money for other amputees

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Israel strikes flour distribution line, kills 50 across Gaza

Palestinian death toll in besieged Gaza Strip rises to 44,758 amid relentless Israeli attacks, health authorities say.

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The Conversation

Will politicians and terrorist leaders live forever in the age of AI?

Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of the Hamas militant organisation, was killed by the Israeli military in the south Gazan city of Rafah in October 2024. Given the role Sinwar played in the planning and execution of the October 7 terrorist attack, as well as his role in the development…

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Israeli Forces Successfully Eliminate Hamas Leader In Rafah

Israeli PM Netanyahu's decision to proceed with military operation in Rafah validated by experts. Israel successfully eliminated Hamas leader Sinwar, prais...

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Israeli Tank Fires At Building Sheltering Hamas Leader Sinwar

Israeli military targets Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a building with tank fire after a confrontation in Rafah. Video footage captures the operation.

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What the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could mean for the Middle East – expert Q&A

Israel has announced it has killed Hamas military leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. Sinwar was apparently killed in a chance encounter on October 16 after a tank unit opened fire on a group of Palestinian men running into a building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. His body was…

The Guardian - US

Middle East crisis: Biden, Starmer and Macron say ‘immediate necessity’ to end Gaza war – as it happened

Trio join Olaf Scholz in calling for war to end, while reports say Yahya Sinwar was killed by gunshot to head

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Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Killed In IDF Operation

Analysis of IDF footage and satellite imagery reveals the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a residential area of Rafah.

Evening Standard

Netanyahu says ‘evil has suffered a heavy blow’ as he confirms Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza

Sinwar was killed during a ground operation in the city of Rafah, with US leaders hoping his death spells ‘opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza’

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