{"id":314404,"date":"2026-02-01T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/as-israel-tests-partial-reopening-of-rafah-crossing-with-egypt-what-changes-for-gazans-dw-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:00:23","slug":"as-israel-tests-partial-reopening-of-rafah-crossing-with-egypt-what-changes-for-gazans-dw-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/as-israel-tests-partial-reopening-of-rafah-crossing-with-egypt-what-changes-for-gazans-dw-news\/","title":{"rendered":"As Israel tests partial reopening of Rafah crossing with Egypt, what changes for Gazans? | DW News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/FRALkhDJYqw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"As Israel tests partial reopening of Rafah crossing with Egypt, what changes for Gazans? | DW News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FRALkhDJYqw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Israel is supposed to reopen Gaza&#8217;s border with Egypt to Palestinians on foot for the first time in nearly a year today. It&#8217;s not clear whether the crossing is now open but fleets of ambulances are waiting on the Egyptian side of the border to transport injured Palestinians for treatment in Egypt. Israel had refused to open the Rafah crossing as part of a ceasefire agreement until all hostage bodies held by Hamas militants were released. The final set of remains were repatriated six days ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the reopening will be limited, with movement in and out of Gaza subject to Israeli security checks.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to journalist Karim el-Gawhary in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>#israel #rafah #gaza <\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is supposed to reopen Gaza&#8217;s border with Egypt to Palestinians on foot for the first time in nearly a year today. It&#8217;s not clear whether the crossing is now open but fleets of ambulances are waiting on the Egyptian side of the border to transport injured Palestinians for treatment in Egypt. Israel had refused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[131502,140890,136754],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-314404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-israel","tag-reopen","tag-supposed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>As Israel tests partial reopening of Rafah crossing with Egypt, what changes for Gazans? | DW News | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch As Israel tests partial reopening of Rafah crossing with Egypt, what changes for Gazans? | DW News for free, here on News ISC. 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