Rafah border fully reopens with new security protocols for Palestinians leaving Gaza

Despite the reopening of Rafah, Israel is still limiting the entry of foreign and Israeli journalists and insisting on supervising their visits.

Israel fully reopened the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Monday for pedestrians, a day after rolling out a limited pilot test to sort through unforeseen logistics issues.

Collectively, the Sunday-Monday rollout allows Palestinians to leave the enclave and to let back in certain Gazans who fled during the Israel-Hamas War.

Sunday’s opening for a very small number of Palestinians was mostly intended to help the three-fold Israeli, European Union Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM), and Palestinian officials involved figure out some of the inevitable holes in the process on the ground from such a large and complex undertaking.

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