{"id":891620,"date":"2026-02-11T05:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/israel-to-empty-gaza-of-palestinians-with-more-out-than-in-rafah-border-policy-sources\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:14:45","slug":"israel-to-empty-gaza-of-palestinians-with-more-out-than-in-rafah-border-policy-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/israel-to-empty-gaza-of-palestinians-with-more-out-than-in-rafah-border-policy-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to empty Gaza of Palestinians with \u2018more out than in\u2019 Rafah border policy: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering \u200cGaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter \u200dsaid ahead of the border\u2019s expected opening next week.<\/p>\n

The head of a transitional Palestinian committee backed by the US to temporarily administer Gaza, Ali Shaath, announced on Thursday that the Rafah Border Crossing \u2013 effectively the sole route in or out of Gaza for nearly all of the more than 2 million people who live there \u2013 would open next week.<\/p>\n

The border was supposed to \u2060have opened during the initial phase of US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to end the war, under a ceasefire reached in October between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Washington announced that the plan had now moved into the second phase, under which Israel is expected to withdraw troops further from Gaza and Hamas is due to yield control of the territory\u2019s administration. The Gaza side of the crossing has been under Israeli military control since 2024.<\/p>\n

The three sources, who spoke on condition \u200dof anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, said it was still not clear how Israel planned to enforce limits on the number of Palestinians entering Gaza \u200dfrom Egypt, or what ratio of exits to entries it aimed to achieve.<\/p>\n

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Israeli forces operating on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on May 7, 2024. Photo: Israeli Army\/AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Israeli officials have spoken in the past about encouraging Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza, although they deny intending to transfer the population out by force. Palestinians are highly sensitive to any \u200csuggestion that Gazans could be expelled, or that those who leave temporarily could be barred from returning.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

Diego Menjivar
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Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering \u200cGaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter \u200dsaid ahead of the border\u2019s expected opening next week. The head of a transitional Palestinian committee backed by the US to temporarily administer Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4750,372],"tags":[6739,8669],"class_list":{"0":"post-891620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-empty","8":"category-israel","9":"tag-empty","10":"tag-israel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}