Rafah border crossing
According to Hamas, the bodies include members of the Bibas family: a mother and her two children, as well as Oded Lifshitz, who was 83 years old at the time Hamas took over 250 captives from Israel on October 7, 2023.
Egyptian medical teams at Rafah border crossing continue their intensive preparations to receive new batches of wounded and injured Palestinians coming from the Gaza Strip to receive treatment in Egyptian hospitals.
Convoys full of humanitarian aid continue to flock from Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip.
Moreover, Egypt has admitted dozens of injured Palestinians and their companions through the Rafah crossing since the beginning of February, days after a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza took effect on 19 January.
A total of 50 injured Palestinians is scheduled to exit the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing to receive medical treatment abroad. The World Health Organization has welcomed the planned evacuation, marking the first medical transfer of patients through the Rafah crossing since its closure in May 2024. This evacuation is set to take place on Saturday.
Thousands of people arrived in Rafah today, some kilometers away from war-battered Gaza, to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people amid US-Israeli schemes to displace the population after more than 15 months of war.
Egypt's health minister directed an increase in the number of medical teams in emergency care departments and the enhancement of medical equipment in hospitals located in Arish, Bir Al-Abd, and Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai.
Egypt's FM says the Israeli military presence in the Philadelphi Corridor and the Palestinian section of the Rafah crossing has "political objectives."
The minister expressed rejection to "Israeli statements and lies about Gaza borders."
The statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Netanyahu of attempting to distract the Israeli public opinion, and cripple negotiations.
Egypt administers mediation between the two warring parties in Gaza in alignment with its national security and the rights of the Palestinian people.
The source affirmed that the arrangements within the Strip after the ongoing Israeli military operation are solely a Palestinian matter
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Egypt has restated its unwavering position, emphasizing the requirement for Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing as a crucial condition for reopening the crossing.
This discussion comes in the context of Egypt's commitment to ensuring a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the crossing, the source added.
Officials from Egypt, the United States, and Israel are scheduled to meet in Cairo next week to discuss the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, reported Axios, citing US and Israeli officials.
About 200 humanitarian aid trucks, including four fuel trucks, were redirected from the Rafah border crossing to the Karm Abu Salem crossing
The ICJ ruled that Israel must immediately open the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza for aid delivery.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that Israeli military operations near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza have made the delivery of humanitarian assistance challenging, according to Reuters.
Israeli Walla news website claimed that the chief of the Israeli Shin Bet made a phone call with head of the Egyptian Intelligence Services Abbas Kamal to speak about finding a solution to the crisis of Rafah border crossing.
