Gaza’s Rafah crossing to open on Wednesday ‘for limited movement of people’, Israel says

Gaza’s ⁠main gateway, ⁠the Rafah crossing with Egypt that was closed at the start of ‌the Iran war, will open on Wednesday for limited movement of people in both directions, Israel’s COGAT, the ⁠military body in charge of humanitarian ‌matters, said on Sunday.The crossing had reopened ‌in early February after being largely ⁠shut ⁠since May 2024, in the ‌early months of Israel’s war against Hamas ‌in ‌Gaza. Its reopening offered ‌some relief to Palestinians who ⁠want to leave Gaza for ⁠medical care or those who want to return after ‌fleeing the ‌fighting.Meanwhile at least 13 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and her husband, two boys and nine police officers, were killed on Sunday by Israeli air strikes in Gaza, hospital authorities said.A strike on Sunday morning hit a house in the urban refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza and killed four people, including a couple in their 30s and their 10-year-old son, according to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The woman had been pregnant with twins, the hospital said.The fourth fatality, a 15-year-old neighbour, was taken to the Awda hospital in Nuseirat.“We were sleeping and got up to the strike of a missile. The strike was strong,” said Mahmoud al-Muhtaseb, a neighbour. “There was no prior warning.”