A narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt has emerged as a major obstacle in talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and freeing scores of hostages.

Israel's Gaza demand just derailed peace talks completely and the shocking proposal that Hamas rejected will surprise ...

The Philadelphi Corridor is a 14-km long, 100-metre-wide demilitarised buffer zone along the entire border between Gaza and Egypt, created by two Egyptian-Israeli agreements in 1979 and 2005.

Gaza’s border has three land crossings. Two of them, the Erez Crossing and Kerem Shalom Crossing, are both under Israeli control. The third, the Rafah Border Crossing, is on the Egyptian border ...

Tens of thousands of Palestinian families have been torn apart by the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza. Cairo-based independent news website Al-Manassa talks with Palestinians in Egypt who are separated ...

Israeli forces are still deployed to the Philadelphi Corridor in the Egypt-Gaza border area. Under the deal, on day 50 of the ceasefire, Israel will need to complete its withdrawal from Philadelphi.

Hamas and Israel on Saturday accused the other of blocking attempts to strike a Gaza ceasefire agreement, nearly a week into ...

Separately, a land convoy known as “Soumoud”, which had departed Tunisia carrying activists from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania, was stopped on Friday morning at the entrance to Sirte, a ...

Israel's defence minister has outlined plans to pack hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a closed zone of the Gaza ...

The Philadelphi corridor is an empty strip — only 100 meters (yards) wide in some places— that runs the 14-kilometer (8.6-mile) length of the Gaza side of the border with Egypt.

A view of a tunnel which the military says Hamas militants used in the southern Gaza Strip, about a 100 meters from the Philadelphi Corridor along the border with Egypt, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.