JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel shut its southernmost Eilat airport near Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday until further notice because of security concerns, the military said. "Due to security ...

Sources at Eilat port tell Israeli media the closure will 'symbolise a victory for the Houthis and a loss for the Israeli ...

Israel is neither confirming nor denying that it was responsible for a drone attack on terrorists near its border with Egypt. In a statement issued late Saturday night, Israel’s Defense Minister ...

Israel completed the main segment of a razor-wire fence along its border with Egypt on Wednesday, a barrier against illegal migrants and Islamist militants hiding out in the lawless Sinai region.

The ties between Israel and Egypt have long been underpinned by security coordination, but tensions are mounting over concerns Israel may try to take control of Gaza's border with Egypt.

The border with Egypt along the southern edge was the Gaza Strip’s only land border that Israel had not controlled directly. Earlier on Wednesday, Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah.

This time six years ago, Israel completed its high-tech border fence with Egypt, marking the start of a transformation in the situation along this restive frontier. With its network radars and came… ...

Palestinians displaced by the Israel air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip sit next to the border fence with Egypt in Rafah, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. By The Associated Press PUBLISHED ...

The narrow corridor — about 100 meters (yards) wide in parts — runs the 14-kilometer (8.6-mile) length of the Gaza side of the border with Egypt and includes the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

The nine-mile-wide corridor, codenamed 'Philadelphi Corridor' by Israel's military, was the only Gaza land border Israel did not directly control. ... to get around a blockade by Israel and Egypt.

At the same time, on the Gaza side, Hamas, whose militants are busy fighting Israel, has largely abandoned border security. So far, Egypt’s fortifications appear to be strong enough to keep ...