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What is the Rafah crossing, and who can now use it?

Connecting Gaza and Egypt, the sensitive border point has opened for dual nationals and those injured in the fighting

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The Rafah border crossing from Gaza into Egypt is the only one of the Gaza crossing points that does not communicate with Israel. While it was intended to be a significant crossing, since the Hamas takeover in 2007 it has only intermittently been open to Palestinians, most notably during the brief period when the Muslim Brotherhood governed Egypt up until 2013.

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