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Trucks leave Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt during an Israeli airstrike on October 10, 2023. Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt, its only one that bypasses Israel, was hit by an Israeli air strike on October 10, 2023 for the second time in 24 hours, witnesses and a rights group said. Witnesses said the strike hit the no-man’s land between the Egyptian and Palestinian gates, damaging the hall on the Palestinian side.
Caption:Trucks leave Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt during an Israeli airstrike on 10 October, 2023.Photo credit:AFP / Said KhatibThis handout satellite picture courtesy of Maxar Technologies taken on 15 October, 2023 shows an overview of Rafah border crossing to Egypt (C) and South Gaza Strip (R).Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies / AFPAid supplies for Gaza provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) arrives at the Arish airport in Egypt’s north Sinai Peninsula on 15 October, 2023.AFP / Ali Moustafa
Palestinians, some with foreign passports hoping to cross into Egypt and others waiting for aid wait at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza strip, on October 16, 2023. The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to around 2,750 since Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel last week, the Gaza health ministry said October 16. Some 9,700 people have also been injured as Israel continued its withering air campaign on targets in the Palestinian coastal enclave, the Hamas-controlled ministry added. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP)
A closeup picture taken on February 20, 2022 shows an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion International airport in Lod, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
Trucks leave Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt during an Israeli airstrike on October 10, 2023. Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt, its only one that bypasses Israel, was hit by an Israeli air strike on October 10, 2023 for the second time in 24 hours, witnesses and a rights group said. Witnesses said the strike hit the no-man’s land between the Egyptian and Palestinian gates, damaging the hall on the Palestinian side.
A plume of smoke rises in the sky of Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9, 2023. Israel relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into October 9 as fighting with Hamas continued around the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from the war against the Palestinian militants surged above 1,100.
People standing on a rooftop (left), watch as a ball of fire and smoke rises above a building in Gaza City on 7 October, 2023 during an Israeli air strike.
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