Kerem Shalom border crossing

‘Only the IDF can protect us’: Gaza border residents protest deployment of BoP's Gaza force

Residents who lived through October 7 protested the International Stabilization Force (ISF)’s planned entry into Gaza, citing fears of renewed Hamas attacks.

Activists from Gaza border communities demonstrate near Amitai Camp adjacent to the Kerem Shalom Crossing, blocking the road to ISF trucks in protest of their presence in the Gaza Strip. August 25, 2026.
 TRUCKS CROSS at Kerem Shalom, the main passage point for goods entering the Gaza Strip from Israel.

Nukhba terrorist who participated in Oct. 7 arrested while driving humanitarian aid truck

Pineapple filled with cigarettes intended to be smuggled across the border into Gaza.

Pineapples stuffed with thousands of smuggled cigarettes intercepted by IDF at Gaza crossing

President Isaac Herzog and First Lady Michal Herzog at a Kibbutz Kerem Shalom event marking 1,000 days since the October 7 attacks, July 2, 2026.

Herzog, first lady, visit Kibbutz Kerem Shalom on day 1,000 since October 7 massacre


Social media sites suspend accounts of organization blocking aid to Gaza

In the video that prompted the social media platforms to restrict the movement’s accounts, a statement from family members of the hostages was shown.

 Israeli security forces guard while people protest against aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel, January 29, 2024.

IDF announces the reopening of the Kerem Shalom crossing

The military added that trucks from Egypt containing humanitarian aid, including, among others, food, water, and medicine, were arriving at the crossing.

 A person uses a rope on a truck with humanitarian aid meant for the Gaza Strip A person uses a rope on a truck with humanitarian aid meant for the Gaza Strip

Rafah: Act now or suffer the consequences - editorial

Hamas needs to know enough is enough; If Israel doesn't act now, it will appear weak and encourage future violence.

 SMOKE RISES following an Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, last week. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is no way to defeat Hamas without entering Rafah, the writer notes.

The time for talks is over; it's time for actions - analysis

When Israel finishes dealing with Hamas, the interests of Israel and those of Hezbollah and Iran will likely align, for a short time, to postpone the wider fighting in the north.

 An IDF tank operates in the Gaza Strip. May 2, 2024.

Four soldiers killed in Hamas rocket barrage toward Kerem Shalom, aid crossing closed

The rockets were reportedly launched from the Rafah area. The Kerem Shalom crossing was closed after the attack.

(From left-to-right) IDF soldiers Ruben Marc Mordechai Assouline, Ido Testa, Michael Ruzal, and Tal Shavit, who were killed in the Hamas rocket attack on the Kerem Shalom area. May 5, 2024

Israel shares photo of aid build-up in Gaza, says UN is not distributing it

The target of Israel's ire was UNRWA, the UN agency that Israel has called on nations to defund.

 A photo shared by Israel's Coordinated Office of Government Activity in the Territories (COGAT), purporting to show humanitarian aid piled up, undistributed, on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.

UN chief calls for Israeli 'ironclad commitment' for free humanitarian aid access to Gaza

Katz denounces Guterres for failure to blame Hamas for plundering humanitarian assistance

 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to the media during a visit to the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Lviv, Ukraine August 18, 2022.

Only more land crossings into Gaza can prevent famine, WHO claims

WHO chief Tedros warns Gaza famine risk due to war; urges expanded land crossings for aid. Israel offensive targets key hospital.

 Logo of the World Health Organization.

Police facilitate humanitarian aid entry to Gaza as protesters continue to disrupt

The protests have occurred for several months. Early in February, dozens of protesters blocked the path of humanitarian aid trucks to Gaza also at the Kerem Shalom crossing.

People camp as they protest against the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and to demand the immediate release of hostages kidnapped during the October 7 massacre by Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, at the Kerem Shalom crossing, Israel, February 7, 2024.

Israel to open another Gaza border crossing for humanitarian aid - report

The crossing has been closed since 2011.

 Palestinians walk beside a closed gate of the main commercial crossing of Karni linking the Gaza Strip and Israel,  September 15, 2008.