The Rafah border crossing with Gaza will reopen within days in the presence of European and Palestinian observers, an Egyptian governor said on Wednesday. “The Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing is fully ready for operation,

Experts discuss how long rebuilding Gaza's $18.5 billion of damaged infrastructure could take after 15 months of conflict.

After 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza and the implementation of the ceasefire on 19 January 2025, displaced Palestinians are attempting to return home to what remains of the southern city of Rafah.

Many are finding utter destruction. NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, spent the first half of the war in the southern city of Rafah after being displaced from his home. Then he had to flee again.

Dozens of trucks loaded with oil derivatives and supplies entered Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Monday, after a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect on Sunday morning.

President Donald Trump said Saturday he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — potentially moving out enough of the population to “just clean out” the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.

Aerial footage on Sunday showed the devastation caused to the city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip following ... leave parts of Khan Younis as they go back to their homes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi ...

Many are finding utter destruction. NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, spent the first half of the war in the southern city of Rafah after being displaced from his home. Then he had to flee again. Yesterday, he returned. NPR international correspondent Aya ...

Gaza doesn’t look as it did prior to this genocide. The Gaza Strip has become a graveyard. The streets we used to know don’t exist. There is debris everywhere and the dreams of martyred people have been lost. It will take years for hundreds of thousands of people to rebuild their lives.

Trump also said he's ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, which Biden had implemented out of concern for civilian casualties in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon by this weekend’s deadline set in its ceasefire with Hezbollah.