Move comes as 13 people were killed – including children, a pregnant woman and police officers – in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Sunday
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenAgenciesPublished: 2:49am, 16 Mar 2026Updated: 3:13am, 16 Mar 2026Gaza’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.
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.”
