Israel was forced to open the Rafah crossing
Tel Aviv and Cairo agreed to open a checkpoint for humanitarian aid for the first time since Israeli forces seized the border crossing in early May. Control of this border post will be handed over from the Israeli military to "Palestinians proven not to be affiliated with Hamas."
Israel and Egypt have reached an agreement in principle to reopen the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza for humanitarian aid. It is the main control point for the residents of the exclave through which most of the products pass.
At the beginning of May, the Israeli military occupied the crossing. The Egyptian side refused to deal with the Israelis, demanding that control of the checkpoint be returned to the Palestinians. Cairo refused to participate in the Israeli military invasion of Rafah. Since then, the crossing has been blocked for almost three weeks.
On May 25, Egypt resumed aid deliveries through the Kerem Abu Salim (Kerem Shalom) crossing on the triple border between Israel, Gaza, and Egypt. The agreement on the reopening of the Rafah checkpoint was reached as a result of pressure from the United States on both sides, reports the Israeli Kan channel.
According to him, Israel agreed to withdraw its troops for the opening of the border crossing. At the same time, control over the checkpoint will be transferred from the Israeli military to an international organization, the TV channel says. However, since the organization has yet to be found, Israel has agreed to temporarily hand over control of the border crossing to Palestinians in Gaza who have proven they are not affiliated with Hamas. This has not yet been confirmed by Tel Aviv.
No date has been announced for the crossing to reopen.
On May 29, Israel announced that it had fully captured the Philadelphia Corridor, a 14-kilometer buffer zone along the entire Egypt-Gaza border. Cairo has previously warned that the presence of Israeli troops in No Man's Land would be a violation of the 1979 peace agreement.
On May 30, the Axios portal reported that Tel Aviv presented Cairo with a plan to deploy Israeli troops outside the Rafah checkpoint to avoid violating the 1979 agreement.
Also, according to the publication, the United States will hold a tripartite meeting with representatives of the Egyptian and Israeli security agencies in Cairo next week on the issues related to the border of Gaza with Egypt.
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