Rafah Crossing

Rafah Invasion: Everything That’s Happened so Far

May 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, LandGrabs, Occupation, Palestine

by Tareq S. Hajjaj, published on Mondoweiss, May 8, 2024 It’s a scene that has played over and over again in the southern Gaza city of Rafah since the beginning of the war: mothers with sad and pale faces carrying their children on their shoulders and in their hands, balancing many bags on their backs, surrounded by more children carrying[…]

Starvation Begins to Bite in Rafah

December 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine

by Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, published on Electronic Intifada, December 19, 2023 It was 6:00 am on 15 December, when my mother woke me to take our turn in the line at a nearby bakery, 15 minutes away on foot. There are two lines, one for women and one for men. My mother was number 29, I number 30. We had[…]

Struggling to Break the Gaza Blockade

November 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Censorship and Propaganda, Citizen Diplomacy, Collapsed States, Colonialism, Egypt, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, November 22, 2023 Miles of semi-trailer trucks are lined up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing, waiting to deliver water, food, medicine and other essentials to Gaza. Longtime peace and justice activist Sarah Flounders recently traveled to Egypt with a delegation to push for opening the Rafah Crossing to let[…]

International Delegation in Cairo Demands Opening of Rafah Border Crossing

November 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Egypt, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Resistance

Press Release, published on Workers World, November 12, 2023 Susan Abulhawa: +1.267.391.5386, Suzanne Adely: +1.773.510.7446. UNAC AC member Sara Flounders is in Egypt with this group, working to get aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Hopefully we will have a report-back from the scene very soon. We are an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and organizers[…]