The Latest Breaking News from Rafah

Border crossing open for first time in weeks to allow evacuation of injured Palestinians and foreign passport holders. Plus, one man’s search for the world’s greatest sandwich

It's the first time people have been allowed to exit the Palestinian territory since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Ambulances took dozens of seriously wounded people to hospitals in Egypt.

Watch a live view of the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday 1 November after the Palestinian border authority said injured Gazans are to enter Egypt.

It is not clear how long Rafah border crossing will remain open for evacuation

Dozens of foreign passport-holders enter crossing from Gaza to Egypt

Hamas says hundreds injured after refugee camp strikes; the US president responded to an anti-war protestor saying he supports a humanitarian ‘pause’

At least 355 foreign passport holders – including confirmed British, US, French, Italian and Austrian nationals – and 76 wounded Palestinians crossed on Wednesday to Egypt from Gaza, according to an Egyptian official. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said a second Israeli bombing raid in two days had killed and wounded…

Voice memos recorded by NPR's producer in Gaza during a 34-hour communications blackout convey a weekend of anxiety and uncertainty for Palestinians as Israeli ground troops invaded.

Zaynab Wandawi was told Foreign Office can't do more to secure safe travel through border crossing