{"id":43213,"date":"2026-01-30T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43213"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:32:17","slug":"israel-announces-plan-to-reopen-gazas-rafah-crossing-on-sunday-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43213","title":{"rendered":"Israel announces plan to reopen Gaza\u2019s Rafah crossing on Sunday | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 30 Jan 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">30 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Isreal plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, after nearly two years of closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">However, the crossing, that links Gaza with Egypt, will only be opened to allow a \u201climited movement of people,\u201d COGAT, a defence ministry body overseeing civil affairs in the Palestinian territories, said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The opening of the crossing \u2013 a key entry point for desperately-needed humanitarian supplies for Gaza\u2019s 2 million or so displaced people lacking food, shelter and medicines \u2013 is stipulated under the second phase of the United States brokered ceasefire deal designed to bring to a halt the devastating war between Hamas and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published On 30 Jan 202630 Jan 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Isreal plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, after nearly two years of closure. However, the crossing, that links Gaza with Egypt, will only be opened to allow a \u201climited movement of people,\u201d COGAT, a defence ministry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1631,12009,5761,214,150,1436,3671,8321,11988],"class_list":{"0":"post-43213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-announces","9":"tag-crossing","10":"tag-gazas","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-plan","14":"tag-rafah","15":"tag-reopen","16":"tag-sunday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}