A visit to Gaza reveals rubble, tunnels and new asphalt along Egypt…
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Netanyahu says a number of tunnels found in the corridor going under the border were used by Hamas to smuggle in weapons. Egypt says it sealed off all the tunnels on its side years ago. Rafah’s nearby district of Tel el-Sultan was a landscape of destruction, months into Israel’s offensive in the city.
Egypt will not accept security changes on Gaza border, foreign …
WEB4 days ago · CAIRO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Egypt will not accept any changes to the security arrangements that were in place on its border with Gaza before war broke out between Israel and Hamas last October, the ...
How a strip of land in Gaza that borders Egypt has become an …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · Updated 2:42 PM PDT, September 13, 2024. A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as a major obstacle in talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and freeing scores of hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must maintain control over the so-called Philadelphi ...
Blinken is heading back to the Middle East ... - Associated Press News
WEB5 days ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Egypt on Tuesday for his 10th trip to the Middle East since the war in Gaza began nearly a year ago, this one aimed partly at refining a proposal to present to Israel and Hamas for a cease-fire deal and release of hostages. Unlike in recent mediating missions, America’s top ...
Citing Gaza Help, Blinken Waives Human Rights Conditions on Aid to Egypt
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Reporting from Washington. For the first time under the Biden administration, the United States will send Egypt its full allotment of $1.3 billion in annual military aid, waiving human rights ...
Egypt warns Israel of ‘dire repercussions’ over Rafah operation in Gaza
WEBMay 15, 2024 · Egypt could consider downgrading relations with Israel if it presses on with a military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah on the Egyptian border, an Egyptian official told CNN.
Egypt Faces Hard Choices After Israeli Seizure of Gaza’s Southern ...
WEBMay 30, 2024 · Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is alarmed by the prospect of Gazan refugees streaming across its border, is sensitive to the outrage in Egypt and across the Arab world to...
Israel in Talks Over Withdrawing From Egypt-Gaza Border, …
WEBJul 15, 2024 · Israel and Egypt have privately discussed a possible withdrawal of Israeli soldiers from Gaza’s border with Egypt, according to two Israeli officials and a senior Western diplomat, a shift that...
Egypt Won't Accept Security Changes on Gaza Border, Foreign …
WEB4 days ago · Egypt, which is a mediator in ceasefire talks, says Israel must withdraw and that a Palestinian presence needs to be restored at the Rafah crossing between Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and Gaza.
Egypt changed terms of Gaza ceasefire deal presented to Hamas ... - CNN
WEBMay 21, 2024 · Egyptian intelligence quietly changed the terms of a ceasefire proposal that Israel had already signed off on earlier this month, ultimately scuttling a deal that could have released Israeli...