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Kerem Shalom border crossing

The Kerem Shalom border crossing is one of the two border crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

 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

IDF announces the reopening of the Kerem Shalom crossing

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(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

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

 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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 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.

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 Military vehicles maneuver next to a fence, as seen from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, November 5, 2023.

Israeli kids crawl under Gaza border fence, returned by IDF troops

 Members of Mothers of IDF Soldiers protest at the Kerem Shalom crossing, at the Gaza border, January 24, 2024

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 A general view of the Rafah crossing from the Egyptian side with a truck carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, November 12, 2023.

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 Trucks seen at the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 10, 2023

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 Palestinian workers wait outside Kerem Shalom crossing after a ceasefire was agreed between Palestinian factions and Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip May 14, 2023.

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