Brief: Israel says it will open Gaza border, but only to allow exits
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: 60 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 367 Palestinians in Gaza. Israel said it would reopen Gaza's border with Egypt. Despite ongoing violence, Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank sought to find some normalcy. Israel has killed more than 70,354 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.
In this episode:
- Hind Khoudary, (@Hind_Gaza) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Nour Odeh, (@osamabinjavaid) Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Andrew Greiner and Munera AlDosari is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. |
| 0:04.0 | As Israel's war on Gaza continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:10.0 | This week, 60 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 367 Palestinians in Gaza. |
| 0:20.0 | Israel said it would reopen Gaza's border with Egypt. |
| 0:24.3 | Despite ongoing violence, Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank sought to find some |
| 0:29.8 | normalcy. |
| 0:31.2 | Today is Sunday, December 7. |
| 0:33.9 | Israel has killed more than 70,354 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023. |
| 0:43.6 | On Wednesday, Israel announced it would allow the reopening of the Rafa crossing, which connects Gaza to Egypt, but only to allow Palestinians to leave. |
| 0:54.1 | Here's Al Jazeera's Hind Hodari. |
| 0:57.1 | There's a lot of concerns and questions, |
| 1:00.0 | and Palestinians have been promised that the Raffa crossing is going to be open |
| 1:04.3 | for the past couple of months since the beginning of the ceasefire, |
| 1:07.6 | but Palestinians did not see anything implemented on the ground. |
| 1:12.1 | Now, number one is how will Palestinians even make it to the raffah crossing itself? The raffah is under control |
| 1:18.6 | of the Israeli forces and also under the yellow line where no one is able to reach the area. |
| 1:24.7 | The process itself who's supposed to, who is going to get the |
| 1:28.8 | permission to leave is also another question. And a lot of Palestinians have a lot of concerns. |
| 1:34.9 | So we're only allowed to get out and empty the gauzel strip and no one is supposed to go back |
| 1:40.4 | where there are thousands of Palestinians also in Egypt stuck and waiting for the Ruffah |
| 1:45.2 | crossing to open where they want to reunite with their families. |
| 1:50.4 | The ceasefire in Gaza continues to largely hold, despite regular Israeli violations that |
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