World Jul 21 Egypt provides free train rides for Sudanese refugees returning home Hundreds of people who have been displaced by fighting in Sudan have gathered at the central train station in Cairo to begin a free journey home.
Politics Jan 15 WATCH: Biden announces Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal The deal promises the release of dozens of hostages held by Hamas in phases, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel and would allow hundreds of thousands of people displaced in Gaza to return to what remains of…
World Jan 15 Officials tout a Gaza ceasefire deal and plan to free hostages. Israel says details still in flux Many longer-term questions about postwar Gaza remain, including who will rule the territory or oversee the daunting task of reconstruction.
World Feb 13 Israel and Hamas are making progress in cease-fire and hostage release talks, officials say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to press on until “total victory,” and has insisted that military pressure will help free the hostages.
World Feb 12 Israeli airstrikes kill dozens of Palestinians in Rafah as military rescues 2 hostages In Gaza, the operation unleashed another tragedy in a war that has killed 28,340 Palestinians in the territory, displaced over 80 percent of the population and set off a massive humanitarian crisis.
World Feb 11 Biden tells Israel not to send troops into Rafah without ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians Israel shouldn’t go ahead with a military operation in the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah without a “credible” plan to protect civilians, President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, the White House said.
World Feb 10 Israeli airstrikes in Rafah kill 44 Palestinians as ground invasion of southern city looms A hospital official says Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 44 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, hours after Israel's prime minister said he had asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of…
World Feb 09 ‘I’ll die in my tent:’ Israel’s next target in Gaza war is likely Rafah as despair spreads through population The estimated 1.5 million people sheltering there account for more than half of Gaza's entire population, and they have nowhere to flee in the face of an offensive that has leveled large swaths of Gaza.
World Feb 09 Netanyahu orders Palestinians in Gaza’s crowded Rafah evacuated ahead of expected ground invasion Shortly after midnight Friday, a residential building was struck near Rafah’s Kuwaiti Hospital, killing five people from the al-Sayed family, including three children and a woman. A second Rafah strike killed three more people.
World Feb 08 Israel kills 13 in Rafah, southern Gaza town where many Palestinians have fled More than half of Gaza's population has fled to Rafah, on the mostly sealed border with Egypt. It is also the main entry point for humanitarian aid.