It was once home to an estimated 1.4 million people, over half of the population of Gaza, many of them displaced from the north of the enclave after Israel launched its military offensive following Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attacks.
Today, Rafah is uninhabitable, its buildings crumbled and blackened. Mounds of concrete and bent metal are all that remain. The destruction is absolute.
When NBC News was invited into Gaza's southernmost city by the Israel Defense Forces on Friday, there were no civilians to be seen, just a few cats. Sporadic gunfire and the odd drone overhead punctuated the eery silence.
British stage and screen actress Maggie Smith, the “Downton Abbey” and “Harry Potter” star who numbers...
In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Friday, Israeli Prime...
The head of the Palestinian Authority denounced Israel and its offensive in the Gaza Strip in...
