{"id":181,"date":"2026-02-02T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/who-offers.site\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/1166872\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:15:06","slug":"1166872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/who-offers.site\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/1166872\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: Limited Rafah crossing reopening sparks hope \u2013 but also \u2018massive trepidation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gaza-limited-rafah-crossing-reopening-sparks-hope-but-also-massive-trepidation-e424e80.jpg\" alt=\"Gaza: Limited Rafah crossing reopening sparks hope &ndash; but also &lsquo;massive trepidation&rsquo;\"><\/p>\n<p>An injured child waits in the courtyard of Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Gaza: Limited Rafah crossing reopening sparks hope &ndash; but also &lsquo;massive trepidation&rsquo;                                                                                       Humanitarian Aid <\/p>\n<p> The reopening of the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday after more than a year is being met with both optimism and fear, a senior official with the UN agency that assists the Palestinian people, UNRWA, has said.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;sole border point&nbsp;with Egypt is a lifeline to&nbsp;the&nbsp;world&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;including&nbsp;for&nbsp;thousands of&nbsp;severely ill&nbsp;or injured&nbsp;Palestinians&nbsp;who&nbsp;require&nbsp;medical treatment outside the enclave, where&nbsp;last October&rsquo;s&nbsp;fragile ceasefire&nbsp;between Israel and Hamas&nbsp;continues to hold.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> The development comes, however, following reports of&nbsp;violence over the weekend, with&nbsp;the&nbsp;UN voicing concern&nbsp;over&nbsp;the killing of civilians and&nbsp;Israeli&nbsp;airstrikes.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet element-hidden\" lang=\"en\"><p>                           <iframe src=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/media\/oembed?url=https%3A\/\/twitter.com\/UNRWA\/status\/2018213868154098132%3Fs%3D20&amp;max_width=305&amp;max_height=550&amp;hash=RPapYYJIWMcHz5_r-tAa4SFsJ0-gSnfjPGvQx7htsMI\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"media-oembed-content\" loading=\"lazy\"> <\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2> <strong> &lsquo;Competing dynamics&rsquo; <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p> &ldquo;As we have seen so many times throughout this conflict, we&rsquo;re seeing really competing dynamics here: on the one hand, positive progress when it comes to the re-opening of Rafah, and yet over the past 24 hours, 30 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes during a ceasefire,&rdquo; Sam Rose, Acting Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza,&nbsp;told&nbsp;the BBC on Sunday.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;At the same time, international organizations that are equipped and qualified and capable of doing&nbsp;work,&nbsp;which is urgently needed,&nbsp;are continuing to face major, major constraints.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>For this reason, Palestinians in Gaza are feeling &ldquo;massive trepidation &ndash; hope that people will be able to get out, but real, real fear for the future,&rdquo;&nbsp;he said.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> UNRWA&nbsp;remains&nbsp;on the ground delivering life-saving&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;in&nbsp;where &ldquo;fear and uncertainty persist,&rdquo; the agency said, noting that &ldquo; <strong> access is limited, protection concerns persist, and humanitarian needs remain acute amid ongoing operational constraints <\/strong> .&rdquo;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2> <strong> Limited movement <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p> Reopening&nbsp;the Rafah crossing&nbsp;was&nbsp;an integral part&nbsp;of the&nbsp;20-point&nbsp;peace&nbsp;plan put forward by US President Donald Trump&nbsp;last September, with the ceasefire announced days later.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> For now, Israel&nbsp;will&nbsp;only allow&nbsp;some&nbsp;50 Palestinians to enter and exit&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;each day&nbsp;&ndash; and only on foot, international&nbsp;news agencies have reported.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The crossing will be coordinated with Egypt and supervised by the European Union&nbsp;(EU),&nbsp;according to the&nbsp;UN&nbsp;humanitarian affairs office, OCHA.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Returns&nbsp;will only be permitted for residents who left during the war and after obtaining prior authorization from the Israeli security services, being checked by the EU at the Rafah crossing point and undergoing a second identification and control process in a designated corridor managed by the Israeli army in an area under its control.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2> <strong> Support for returnees <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p> OCHA welcomed the reopening&nbsp;of the key border crossing, underscoring that&nbsp;&ldquo;civilians must be allowed to leave and return voluntarily and safely, as international law requires.&rdquo;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Overthe weekend,&nbsp;the UN&nbsp;carried&nbsp;out&nbsp;an advance mission to assess road conditions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> The UN Development Program (UNDP)&nbsp;is&nbsp;set&nbsp;to provide bus transportation for returnees from the internal checkpoint to Nassar hospital in Khan Younis, where several&nbsp;UN&nbsp;agencies&nbsp;and NGO partnershave set&nbsp;up a reception area to provide&nbsp;them with&nbsp;support.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> The reception desk is staffed by psychologistsand protection specialists, while food, informationand internetconnectivity&nbsp;are available.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gaza-limited-rafah-crossing-reopening-sparks-hope-but-also-massive-trepidation-3e18cc8.jpg\" alt=\"A child arrives at Al-Amal Hospital in his wheelchair in an attempt to get treatment.\"><\/p>\n<p>                                           A child arrives at Al-Amal Hospital in his wheelchair in an attempt to get treatment.          <\/p>\n<h2> <strong> Medical evacuations <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p> Monday also saw the World Health Organization (WHO)supportingmedical evacuation efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Some patients and their companions were able to exit Gaza directly to Egypt,while otherstransitedthrough theIsraeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border crossing&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Israeli authorities approved the travel of only five wounded patients from a list of 27 names&nbsp;submitted&nbsp;to both the Egyptian and Israeli sides,&nbsp;according to&nbsp;Palestinian&nbsp;sources.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2> <strong> Treatment beyond borders <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p> Families lined up in the courtyard of Al-Amal Hospital&nbsp;in the south of the&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;Strip to bid farewell to&nbsp;sick relatives,&nbsp;and their&nbsp;travel companions,&nbsp;heading to Egypt&nbsp;to complete their treatment. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> I hope to travel for treatment and return walking like other&nbsp;children &#8211; Youssef Awad <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> A <em> UN News <\/em> correspondent was on hand as buses began preparing to depart, carrying with them the hope that the wounded would return fully recovered.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>A young boy called&nbsp;Youssef&nbsp;Awad,&nbsp;who&nbsp;uses a&nbsp;wheelchair,&nbsp;was optimistic&nbsp;that he&nbsp;would&nbsp;be able to walk and play again.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;I hope to travel for treatment and return walking like other&nbsp;children,&rdquo;&nbsp;he said. <\/p>\n<h2> <strong> &lsquo;Expedite the process&rsquo; <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p> Another&nbsp;injured&nbsp;child,&nbsp;Ahmed Iyad Abu al-Khair, sat in&nbsp;a&nbsp;wheelchair beside his father, Iyad, awaiting his turn in the medical evacuation convoy heading to the Rafah crossing.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Ahmed&rsquo;s&nbsp;head was covered with a white bandage, and he appeared unable to move while his father tried to comfort him.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;We hope that decision-makers and the World Health Organization will expedite the process and help us get my son Ahmed to travel to complete his treatment, as every hour he spends here affects his health.&rdquo;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gaza-limited-rafah-crossing-reopening-sparks-hope-but-also-massive-trepidation-8f449b7.jpg\" alt=\"Injured Palestinians in wheelchairs protest demanding permission to travel abroad for medical treatment.\"><\/p>\n<p>                                           Injured Palestinians in wheelchairs protest demanding permission to travel abroad for medical treatment.          <\/p>\n<h2> <strong> Thousands still waiting <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p>In a&nbsp;protest reflecting the extent of their despair, dozens of injured Palestinians staged a demonstration near the hospital, sitting in their wheelchairs and demanding an increase in the number of people allowed to travel daily which &ldquo;should be in the hundreds&rdquo; instead of 50.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;We have been waiting for the crossing to open since the beginning of the war, and like many others, we have not been lucky,&rdquo; said Farid al-Qassas, an injured man.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> We hope that everyone will hear us and save what&nbsp;remains&nbsp;of these patients &#8211; Farid al-Qassas <\/p>\n<p> <span> class=&#8221;notranslate&#8221;&gt;__GTAG6__<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;In this building alone, there are about 100 patients in need of medical referrals, and the number of wounded waiting to travel reaches about 13,000 patients and injured people. We hope that everyone will hear us and save what&nbsp;remains&nbsp;of these patients.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;last medical evacuation through&nbsp;the&nbsp;Rafah crossing was in May 2024.&nbsp;Overall,&nbsp; <strong> more than 18,500 patients in Gaza, including 4,000 children, are still waiting&nbsp;to&nbsp;access treatment <\/strong> &nbsp;abroad.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;The most effective option would be to resume referrals to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and rehabilitate damaged health facilities in Gaza,&rdquo; OCHA said.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Until&nbsp;then, UNMember States&nbsp;are locked&nbsp;&ldquo;to accept more patients so that everyone receives the treatment that they need.&rdquo;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2> <strong> Aid&nbsp;delivery&nbsp;update <\/strong> &nbsp; <\/h2>\n<p> The agency&nbsp;also&nbsp;stressed that &ldquo; <strong> ultimately, essential humanitarian supplies must enter in sufficient quantities and with fewer restrictions <\/strong> &nbsp;through Rafah and other crossings.&rdquo;&#8239;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Between&nbsp;23-29&nbsp;January, at least 13,800 pallets of humanitarian aid managed by the UN and its partners were unloaded at crossing points.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Nearly 60&nbsp;per cent&nbsp;of these shipments&nbsp;contained&nbsp;food, but also&nbsp;shelter&nbsp;items, school supplies, health items,&nbsp;fuel&nbsp;and nutritional kits.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Since&nbsp;the announcement of the ceasefire&nbsp;on 10 October, at least 272,000 pallets of humanitarian goods were unloaded,&nbsp;and 270,000 pallets were collected at the various crossing points.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/02\/1166872\" target=\"_blank\" ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify mb-2\" >An injured child waits in the courtyard of Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. 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