The strip is about 139 square miles –that's slightly more than twice the size of Washington, D.C. Its border with Israel is about 36 miles and its border with Egypt is about eight miles.

The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Friday. (Shutterstock) A border crossing linking Egypt with the Gaza Strip has been temporarily closed as part of an effort to get a ...

An armed Israeli man is among a tour group of visitors at a separation wall in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 17, 2024. The wall features artwork that shows four ...

I've made dozens of reporting trips to the Gaza Strip, most always because something ... It was November 2005, and the place was the Rafah border crossing, at the southern end of Gaza, the gateway ...

People walk on a road near the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt, Jan. 12, 2024. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua) People walk on a road near the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt, Jan. 12, 2024.

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 appeared to be readying its expected ground invasion of the Gaza Strip — as photos show a formation of tanks positioned at the southern border Friday, where hundreds of thousands of ...

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Israeli soldiers take up positions next to an entrance of a tunnel which the military says Hamas militants used in the southern Gaza Strip ... Corridor along the border with Egypt, during a ...