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Abdel Hammad took 10 hours to get to Egypt and will not receive support from UK Foreign Office to fly home

Analysts say Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi fears instability at home if Palestinian refugees cross the border.

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The Prime Minister thanked Egypt for its role in helping to allow some to leave via the Rafah border crossing.

Over 200 Britons remained stranded at the Rafah crossing as Egypt opened its borders to allow some foreign nationals and injured through

Adelaide family who escaped besieged enclave through Rafah as part of multinational deal say crossing border was ‘nerve-racking’ and took several attempts

Americans were provided flights from Israel after 7 October Hamas attack, but those in besieged Gaza Strip cannot leave

Hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of seriously wounded patients desperate to escape the war in Gaza have crowded at the black iron gate on the Egyptian border, hoping to pass through the enclave’s only portal to the outside world for the first time since the war began

Zaynab Wandawi, a British national born in Salford, was turned away at the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.