The partial reopening of the Rafah crossing is being presented as humanitarian progress. It is not. It is a rationed mercy imposed under occupation.
After two years of total closure, Israeli forces will allow Rafah to operate for just six hours a day, permitting only 150 Palestinians to leave Gaza and 50 to enter. This is not relief; it is triage under siege. Tens of thousands of critically ill and wounded Palestinians — many of them children — remain trapped, while Gaza health officials report that more than 1,200 people have already died waiting for medical transfer denied by this closure.
Across the border, Egypt has prepared thousands of medical staff, hundreds of hospitals, and fleets of ambulances. The capacity exists. What is missing is freedom of movement — deliberately withheld.
For families like Mohammed Mahdi’s, whose father was suddenly cleared to leave after hope had all but died, the system feels “like a dream.” But dreams rationed by force are not justice.
This cruelty is compounded by continued Israeli airstrikes that have killed at least 30 people this weekend alone, including six children, in clear violation of the ceasefire.
A humanitarian corridor that operates by quota, under bombs, is not a ceasefire.
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