The Latest Breaking News from Rafah

Labelling aid trucks ‘the difference between life and death’, Antonio Guterres called for access via the Rafah crossing.

Rafah crossing still closed to aid as Hamas releases two hostages while Israeli airstrikes on territory continue

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.

The US has evacuated citizens out of Israel as the conflict intensifies, but Palestinian-Americans remain trapped in Gaza with little time and few options, advocates tell Josh Marcus

Five truckloads of supplies are ready to go as soon as the border is opened, WHO officials said—but they need assurances that those delivering them will be allowed to safely do so.