"The Israeli occupation has sentenced the residents of the Strip to death after closure of the Rafah border crossing," said Hisham Edwan, spokesman for the Gaza Border Crossing Au
Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO -Israeli forces seized the main border crossing between Egypt and southern Gaza on Tuesday, shutting down a vital aid route into the Palestinian enclave that is already on the brink of famine.
Israel sent tanks into Rafah and took control of the crossing linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt, securing a strategic corridor as it ramps up preparations for a military offensive in the border city. Israeli military footage showed its tanks entering the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing.
Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO -Israeli forces seized the main border crossing between Egypt and southern Gaza on Tuesday, shutting down a vital aid route into the Palestinian enclave that is already on the brink of famine.
An Israeli tank brigade has seized control of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities say, moving forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge.
Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO -The Israeli military seized control of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Tuesday and its tanks pushed into the southern Gazan town of Rafah after a night of air strikes on the Palestinian enclave.
Egyptian and Palestinian officials tell Associated Press Israeli tanks are approaching city in southern Gaza; US believes strikes on Rafah do not ‘represent a major military operation’
An Israeli tank brigade seized control Tuesday of the Gaza Strip side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, authorities said, moving forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge.
Israel said Monday it is pressing ahead with an assault on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza despite an announcement by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that it had accepted the terms of a brokered cease-fire.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas said it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal for the Gaza Strip, but Israel’s war cabinet unanimously rejected it as “far from Israel’s necessary demands,” dashing hopes for an immediate pause in the fighting.
The IDF has begun conducting “targeted strikes" against Hamas operatives in Rafah, a city located in the southern Gaza Strip where more than 1 million civilians are sheltering.
Gazans packed their belongings on pick-up trucks, cars and donkey-drawn carts after Israel’s military issued a call for residents there to “evacuate immediately.”
Oil futures rose on Monday after Saudi Arabia hiked June crude prices for most regions and as the prospect of a quick agreement for a Gaza ceasefire deal appeared slim, reviving fears that combat between Hamas and Israeli forces will resume soon.
Israel's military struck Rafah from the air on Monday and residents packed up their tents to take flight, hours after Israel ordered them to evacuate some parts of the city, which has been sheltering more than a million people uprooted by war.
The Israeli army on Monday ordered tens of thousands of people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to begin evacuating, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion could be imminent. The announcement complicated last-ditch efforts by international mediators,
People flee the eastern parts of Rafah after the Israeli military began evacuating Palestinian civilians ahead of a threatened assault on the southern Gazan city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas,
The AP’s Jon Gambrell explains Israeli military’s seizure of the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip. The seizure comes as Israeli authorities said it was moving forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge.
Israel called on civilians to evacuate parts of Rafah on Monday in what appeared to be preparation for a long-threatened assault on Hamas holdouts in the southern Gaza Strip city where more than a million war-displaced Palestinians have been sheltering.
Israeli prime minister’s comments come as diplomatic sources say the agreement approved by Hamas is similar to the Egyptian proposal Israel already agreed to
Hamas war in the Middle East as Israeli tanks enter Rafah and seize the Gaza side of the border crossing with Egypt and cease-fire talks take place in Cairo after Hamas accepts a deal.
Israel's military said it has taken control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, a vital entry point for aid to Gaza on the Egyptian border. Follow for live updates.
At least 34,735 Palestinians were killed and 78,108 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza, the enclave's health ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The Israeli army has told Palestinians to begin evacuating a part of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, along the border with Egypt, signaling that a ground invasion is imminent.
Not long after Hamas said it accepted a cease-fire proposal to halt the seven-month war, Israel began striking targets near the southern Gaza town of Rafah.
Israel’s military has issued a call for residents of eastern Rafah to “evacuate immediately”, a day after the country’s defense minister told troops inside Gaza to expect “intense action in Rafah in the near future.
Videos shared by Israeli army forces show tanks firing on the Palestinian side of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt where they claim to have taken control
Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a rocket attack claimed by Hamas' armed wing near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where Palestinian health officials said at least 19 people were killed by Israeli fire.
US pressing Israel to avoid attacks in densely populated areas, official says; Israel sending delegation to Cairo for indirect negotiations on truce with Hamas
Daniel Hagari statement suggests military offensive still being prepared after militant group has told mediators it is accepting Qatari-Egyptian proposal
Israel’s military has called for people to evacuate eastern neighbourhoods of Rafah and head to what it claimed was an ‘expanded humanitarian zone’ in southern Gaza