Of 26 hostages yet to be freed under first phase of deal, only 18 are still alive; government spokesman said the families ...

The Palestinian medical and rescue teams on Friday recovered the remains of 17 Palestinians from the rubble of destroyed homes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, who were killed in the course of ...

A man sits in the rubble of his destroyed home in Rafah as Palestinians return to the southern Gaza Strip city for the first time in months, after Israeli troops withdrew to the border ...

Anas Baba/NPR RAFAH, Gaza Strip — For nearly 16 months, Israeli airstrikes pounded the Gaza Strip, flattening entire neighborhoods and leveling tens of thousands of structures. A ceasefire ...

The Israeli army on Wednesday killed a Palestinian man and wounded four others while they were returning to their houses in Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to Palestinian sources.

Now, it's a painful reminder of the the past 15 months of war in Gaza. "We left Rafah on May 6. I left and I was afraid," she told the ABC this week. "I wanted to take something, anything ...

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Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday denied a report in a Saudi-owned news outlet that it agreed to allow the Palestinian Authority (PA) to take control of the Rafah crossing between Gaza ...

Repairs are underway on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing, with plans for its reopening within days to facilitate increased aid deliveries to Gaza, a senior Egyptian official said ...

south of Rafah Governorate. The Israeli occupation continues to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which entered into force on Sunday, by directly targeting Palestinian civilians ...

Israel has confirmed it will maintain control of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in phase one of its ceasefire deal with Hamas. A statement released by Israeli Prime ...

According to a report in the Saudi-owned, UK-based Asharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday, Israel has agreed to allow the PA to take control of the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt in future stages of ...