The Latest Breaking News from Rafah

Rishi Sunak said the Rafah crossing should reopen ‘imminently’ to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

The Prime Minister says the ‘immediate priority’ is to get humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza

As the bombs fall behind them, desperate Palestinians mass at the Rafah border crossing. This is just what Netanyahu wants, writes Cairo-based journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Israeli defence minister tells troops they will soon see Palestinian territory ‘from the inside’; hopes for aid to enter Gaza in coming days

President Joe Biden says he struck a deal with his Egyptian counterpart to allow a first run of 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, which Israel sealed off after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.

President Biden has helped negotiate aid deal into Gaza, but hasn’t gotten Americans out

The head of the UN health agency says five trucks of medical supplies are ready at the Rafah crossing in Egypt.

U.N. officials and their partners are ramping up efforts to take advantage of a possible window for Israel and Egypt to allow humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza, whose people have been stripped of deliveries of fuel, food, water and medical supplies from the outside as Israeli forces strike at Hamas…

As aid remains blocked at the Rafah crossing, and Cairo residents collect donations, many ask when the border will open.