The Latest Breaking News from Egypt

Around 200 UK citizens have registered as being in the strip with the Foreign Office.

Israel’s ground troops advanced toward Gaza City on Thursday, as the U.S. and Arab countries intensified diplomatic efforts to ease the siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and bring about at least a brief stop to the fighting to help civilians

Over 200 Britons remained stranded at the Rafah crossing as Egypt opened its borders to allow some foreign nationals and injured through

Adelaide family who escaped besieged enclave through Rafah as part of multinational deal say crossing border was ‘nerve-racking’ and took several attempts

Americans were provided flights from Israel after 7 October Hamas attack, but those in besieged Gaza Strip cannot leave

Hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of seriously wounded patients desperate to escape the war in Gaza have crowded at the black iron gate on the Egyptian border, hoping to pass through the enclave’s only portal to the outside world for the first time since the war began

Zaynab Wandawi, a British national born in Salford, was turned away at the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.

Announcement comes as US confirms first of its citizens able to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

As a small number of injured Palestinians leave the Gaza Strip, many more remain in urgent need of treatment abroad.