CAIRO/GAZA, April 4 — Hundreds of thousands of fleeing Gazans sought shelter yesterday in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war, as Israeli forces advanced into the ruins of the city of Rafah, part of a newly announced "security zone" they intend to seize.

BRUSSELS/CAIRO, Jan 31 — The European Union has restarted its civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah, a key entry and exit point for the Palestinian territory, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said today.

CAIRO, June 21 — Several Israeli air strikes in the central and northern Gaza Strip overnight and into the early hours of today killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens of others, according to medics, while tanks deepened their invasion into Rafah in the south, residents said.

CAIRO, June 20 — Israeli tanks backed by warplanes and drones advanced deeper into the western part of the Gazan city of Rafah yesterday, killing eight, said residents and Palestinian medics.

CAIRO, June 10 — Israeli forces pounded central Gaza anew yesterday, a day after killing 274 Palestinians during a hostage rescue raid, and tanks advanced further into Rafah in an apparent bid to seal off part of the southern city, residents and Hamas media said.

KANGAR, June 5 — The Perlis Customs Department stopped a trailer bearing the logo of an Israel-based shipping company, which was transporting a container from a neighbouring country, from entering Malaysia via Padang Besar on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, June 4 — United States Senator Bernie Sanders reiterated yesterday he will not attend an address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a joint session of Congress.

JERUSALEM, May 31 — Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in a dawn airstrike on Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday and fighting raged in several other areas of the coastal enclave, Gaza medics said.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, May 28 — An Israeli airstrike triggered a fire that killed 45 people in a tent camp in the Gazan city of Rafah, officials said yesterday, prompting an outcry from global leaders who urged the implementation of a World Court order to halt Israel's assault.

CAIRO, May 27 — Israeli air strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.

CAIRO, May 25 — Israeli forces killed more than 30 people in new attacks in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said on Saturday, the day after judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel to halt its offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

GENEVA, May 25 — Francesca Albanese, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, on Saturday, called on the international community to impose sanctions on Israel and suspend diplomatic relations with it until it complies with the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO, May 25 — Forced from her home by Israel’s seven-month-long Gaza offensive, Salwa al-Masri has little hope her plight will be alleviated by a ruling from the UN’s top court ordering Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 — Malaysia welcomes the additional provisional measures by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including the order for Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah.

THE HAGUE, May 25 — Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide.

AL-ARISH, May 24 — Some of the food supplies waiting to enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt have begun to rot as the Rafah border crossing remains shut to aid deliveries for a third week and people inside the Palestinian enclave face worsening hunger.

THE HAGUE, May 24 — Judges at the UN's top court will rule on Friday on South Africa's request to order Israel to halt its Rafah offensive and withdraw from Gaza, part of a wider case accusing Israel of genocide.

CAIRO, May 24 — Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and battled in close combat with Hamas-led militants in areas of the southern city of Rafah, health officials and Hamas media said.

CAIRO, May 23 — Israeli tanks advanced to the edge of a crowded district in the heart of Rafah on Wednesday during one of the most intense nights of bombardment of the southern Gaza city since Israel launched its offensive there this month.

CAIRO, May 13 — Israeli forces pushed deep into the ruins of Gaza’s northern edge today to recapture an area they claimed to have been where they defeated Hamas months ago, while at the opposite end of the enclave, tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah.