{"id":265486,"date":"2026-01-30T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265486\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:25:07","slug":"israel-to-reopen-rafah-crossing-after-two-year-shutdown-of-gaza-egypt-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/265486\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to reopen Rafah crossing after two-year shutdown of Gaza\u2013Egypt border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israel announced it will reopen Gaza\u2019s Rafah border crossing with Egypt in both directions starting from Sunday, allowing limited movement of people, after two years of closure.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The Israeli army said on Friday that the move comes as part of the ceasefire agreement in the besieged Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">\u201cIn accordance with the ceasefire agreement and the directive of the political echelon, the Rafah Crossing will open this coming Sunday (February 1) in both directions for limited movement of people only,\u201d the army said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">It added that exit from and entry into Gaza through the crossing will be coordinated with Egypt and subject to prior security clearance by Israel, under the supervision of a European Union mission.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The army said the reopening will also allow the return of residents who left Gaza during the war, following coordination with Egypt and after obtaining Israeli security approval.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">There was no immediate comment from Palestinian or Egyptian authorities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel announced it will reopen Gaza\u2019s Rafah border crossing with Egypt in both directions starting from Sunday, allowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-265486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}