Tag: Egypt

Rebbetzin Mattie, is the rebbetzin of the Schneerson Center, a synagogue in San Francisco, California.

The Doha discussions, which reportedly included P.A. official Hussein al-Sheikh, also covered the establishment of an administrative committee to manage the coastal enclave.

According to Smotrich, the Israel Defense Forces and the security establishment “did not tell us the truth, and said it wasn’t the P.A.”

Egypt wants to keep the Gazans in Gaza and put the Palestinian Authority in charge.

Cairo's recent military buildup in the Sinai "requires clarification," said Knesset member Ruth Wasserman Lande

The IDF located the drone and three weapons.

The drone and weapons were handed over to security forces for examination.

In Egypt, the released terrorists were welcomed by representatives of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

“The Trump team seems to be signaling a return to friendlier ties,” David May, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS.

Israeli forces are positioned around the crossing and there is no passage without [Israeli] supervision, oversight and advance approval.'

"If Israelis don’t control it, they don’t control Gaza,” Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes says of the Philadelphi Corridor.

Most of the funds aim to bolster the Lebanese Armed Forces, tasked with preventing Hezbollah from rearming south of the Litani River.

The family, from Hod Hasharon, was hiking near the Tel Qana archaeological site.

Egypt had agreed to allow the P.A. leader entry via the Rafah crossing with Israel's approval, which was denied.

Off-and-on negotiations have continued for months with the United States, Egypt and Qatar acting as mediators.

Smotrich call the tripartite statement a "twisted and dangerous starting point" to "pressure us to stop the war and surrender."

“Having a proposal that’s unified between the three mediators can be quite powerful,” said a senior Biden administration official.

It is believed there are numerous smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza under Rafah, and Egypt profited from the smuggling of goods and weapons to the Hamas enclave.

Israel seized control of the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after launching an overnight ground operation in parts of the southern Gaza city.

Egypt is not allowing aid to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing.

Exports to Egypt and Jordan increased by 25%.

Evidence suggests that control of the Rafah crossing has shifted unofficially to Ibrahim al-Arjani, a Bedouin businessman with close ties to prominent figures including Mahmoud al-Sisi, the son of the Egyptian president.

Israel inspects all of the trucks to ensure that nothing that can be used as weapons by Hamas are being sent into Gaza.

“Egypt is able to protect its interests and sovereignty and these will not be surrendered to a group of extremist Israeli leaders seeking to drag the region into a state of conflict,” said the head of Egypt's State Information Services.

Some 20 suspected smugglers converged on the Nitzana commercial crossing, prompting IDF forces to open fire on them.

Gazan are calling the IDF simply to vent their anger at Hamas and encourage the Israelis to continue their offensive.

Israeli intelligence did not know the severity of the smuggling situation before the war.

Hamas terrorists have been fighting with Gazans over food.

Use of the route has grown exponentially in the wake of the Houthi attacks on commercial vessels.

The sites that were struck in the Rafah area where Hamas terrorists were operating.