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Israel volition reopen the Rafah border crossing connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) for people to question betwixt Gaza and Egypt, the Israeli Government bureau that coordinates civilian argumentation successful Gaza, the Coordinator of Government Activities successful the Territories (COGAT), said connected Friday (January 30, 2026).
"The instrumentality of residents from Egypt to the Gaza Strip volition be permitted, successful coordination with Egypt, for residents who near Gaza during the people of the warfare only, and only aft anterior information clearance by Israel," COGAT said.
The Rafah crossing is efficaciously the sole route successful oregon retired of Gaza for astir each of the much than 2 cardinal radical who unrecorded there.
Israel seized the borderline crossing successful May 2024, astir 9 months into the Gaza war. Reopening it was an important request nether the archetypal signifier of U.S. President Donald Trump's program to halt warring betwixt Israel and Hamas militants, which followed a ceasefire agreed successful October.
Israel had said it would reopen it only aft recovering the assemblage of the past Israeli hostage successful Gaza, which took spot this week.
