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31°14′54″N 34°15′34″E  /  31.24833°N 34.25944°E  / 31.24833; 34.25944 The Rafah Border Crossing ( , ) is an international border crossing between Egypt and Palestinian-controlled Rafah . It was built by the Israeli and Egyptian governments after the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty and 1982 Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula , and was managed by the Israel Airports Authority until it was evacuated on September 11, 2005 as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan . It has since become the mission of the European Union Border Assistance Mission Rafah (EUBAM) to monitor the crossing. The Rafah crossing was opened on November 25, 2005, and operated nearly daily until June 25, 2006. Between then and November 2006, it was closed by Israel on 86% of days due to security reasons. It was not opened for the export of goods. In June 2007, it was closed entirely by Egypt after the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip . The EU Ambassador to Israel said that EUBAM monitors could not return to man the crossing because the legal basis for EUBAM - the November 2005 agreement on movement and access - specified that the terminal was to be manned by the Fatah -aligned Force 17 , who were no longer there. On January 23, 2008, masked gunmen demolished the wall, that Hamas -linked militants had apparently weakened in 2007, dividing the Egyptian and Palestinian portions of Rafah, and several hundred thousand Gazans entered Egypt, most of them to buy food and supplies. (See 2008 breach of the Gaza–Egypt border .) On December 27, 2008, Egypt opened the crossing to care for the wounded after the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza (See 2008 Gaza Strip bombings .) On June 1, 2010, Egypt opened the crossing until further notice after the Israeli flotilla raid event in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea . As of June 2, movement at the crossing was slow, for unclear bureaucratic reasons.1
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The Rafah Border Crossing ( Ma`bar Rafaḥ , Ma'avar Rafi'aḥ ) or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip .It is located on the Gaza–Egypt border , which was recognized by the 1979 Israel–Egypt Peace Treaty .The original crossing point was named Rafah land port .Only passage of persons takes place through the Rafah Border Crossing.Traffic of goods is mostly diverted to the Kerem Shalom border crossing .
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Sole border crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip The Rafah Border Crossing ( ) or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip .It is located on the Gaza–Egypt border , which was recognized by the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty .Only passage of persons is allowed to take place through the Rafah Border Crossing as, per the Israeli-led blockade of the Gaza Strip , the entrance of any goods into Gaza must go through Israel, usually through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border crossing .Use of the Rafah crossing will be restricted to Palestinian ID card holders ...Travelers, including returning residents, may use the crossing point to bring in personal effects as defined in Rule 1(e) to Heading 7 of the Annex to the prevailing Customs Tariff.Any other personal belongings or other goods shall be cleared at the Kerem Shalom crossing point.
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Egypt–Palestine border crossing The Rafah Border Crossing ( Arabic : معبر رفح , romanized : Ma`bar Rafaḥ ) or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine 's Gaza Strip .The Rafah crossing was opened by Israel after the 1979 peace treaty and remained under Israeli control until 2005, when it was transferred to Egyptian, Palestinian Authority , and EU control, giving Palestinians partial control of an international border for the first time.In 2007, after Hamas seized Gaza, the EU withdrew, and Israel imposed a complete blockade, effectively sealing Gaza.In the same year, Egypt closed the Rafah crossing.Since then, the Rafah crossing has only opened intermittently for Palestinian movement.Under a 2007 agreement between Egypt and Israel, Egypt controls the crossing but imports through the Rafah crossing require Israeli approval.Israel took control of the Rafah Border Crossing on May 7, 2024, during Gaza war and withdrew in Jan 2025 as part of ceasefire agreement."Israel seizes Gaza's vital Rafah crossing, but the US says it isn't the full invasion many fear" .
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international border crossing between egypt and palestinian-controlled rafah
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sole crossing point between egypt and palestine 's gaza strip
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