🛃 Rafah Border Crossing

The Rafah Border Crossing, also known as the Rafah Crossing Point and referred to by Egyptian authorities as the Rafah land port, is the sole crossing point between Egypt and Palestine's Gaza Strip and Gaza's sole border point with a country other than Israel. The Rafah crossing was opened by Israel after the 1979 peace treaty and remained under Israeli control until Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005, when it was transferred to Egyptian, Palestinian Authority, and EU control, giving Palestinians partial control of an international border for the first time.