Gaza: Rafah crossing reopens under Israeli restrictions - The Latest

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  This is The Guardian.

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  The Rafa Crossing is the only way to get in and out of Gaza that doesn't go through Israel.

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  It's kind of Gaza's artery to the world.

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  The Rafa crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been partially reopened after being closed for nearly two years.

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  A few Palestinians have now crossed into Egypt for medical treatment.

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  And what we saw was really a symbolic opening.

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  I think nothing to even begin to meet both the need for people to seek medical treatment outside Gaza and the desire of Palestinians to go back to their families and their homes,

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  devastated as they are.

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  A small number of medical evacuees have been able to leave Gaza via the newly reopened Rafa crossing.

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  this a step forward in the fragile ceasefire.

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  From the Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hop.

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  Joining me is Emma Graham Harrison, the Guardians Chief Middle East Correspondent.

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  Yesterday, the Rafa crossing,

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  the crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip reopened for the first time in two years.

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  There was supposed to be a transfer of 150 patients needing urgent medical care.

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  from the Strip to Egypt and 50 Palestinians were supposed to be able to return home to the Gaza Strip.

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  But what actually happened?

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  The Rafa crossing is the only way to get in and out of Gaza that doesn't go through Israel.

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  So it's kind of Gaza's artery to the world.

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  And it's been closed since May 2024.

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