Reports: Egypt, Fearing Incoming Palestinians, Refuses to Open Rafah Border Crossing
Egypt on Wednesday rejected a plan that the Israeli government presented to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
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Egypt on Wednesday rejected a plan that the Israeli government presented to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
Israeli tanks pushed deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had been sheltering and stoking fears of further civilian casualties. Israel's international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into refugee-packed...
A US official told Reuters that Israel promised not to make a major move in Rafah without advising Washington
A US official told that Israel promised not to make a major move in Rafah without advising Washington
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, met on Saturday on the sidelines of the 15th annual Islamic Summit Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Banjul, where they discussed bilateral relations and the war in Gaza. Shoukry and Abdollahian agreed to “continue consultations to address all outstanding topics and issues toward normalizing relations,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.