Gaza’s Rafah crossing to open on Wednesday ‘for limited movement of people’, Israel says

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Israel's COGAT announced that Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt will reopen on Wednesday for limited movement of people in both directions. The crossing had been closed since the start of the Iran conflict and had previously reopened in February before being shut again. The limited reopening offers some humanitarian relief to Palestinians seeking to leave Gaza for medical and other reasons.

Gaza’s ⁠main gateway, ⁠the Rafah crossing with Egypt that was closed at the start of ‌the Iran war, will open on Wednesday for limited movement of people in both directions, Israel’s COGAT, the ⁠military body in charge of humanitarian ‌matters, said on Sunday. The crossing had reopened ‌in early February after being largely ⁠shut ⁠since May 2024, in the ‌early months of Israel’s war against Hamas ‌in ‌Gaza. Its reopening offered ‌some relief to Palestinians who ⁠want to leave Gaza for ⁠medical...