Brief: Rafah traffic a trickle, HRW employees quit over suppressed report
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: 130 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 574 Palestinians in Gaza.
The reopening of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt remains insufficient to meet Palestinians' needs. Israel returned more bodies of Palestinians it killed to Gaza. Israel has killed more than 71,850 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.
In this episode:
- Hind Khoudary, (@hindkhoudary) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Ibrahim al-Khalili, (@_ibrahimalkhalili) Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced 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, 130 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 574 Palestinians in Gaza. |
| 0:20.0 | The reopening of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt remains insufficient to meet Palestinians' needs. |
| 0:26.5 | Israel returned more bodies of Palestinians it had killed to Gaza. |
| 0:31.3 | Today is Sunday, February 8. |
| 0:34.0 | Israel has killed more than 71,850 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023. |
| 0:42.8 | The Rafa crossing between Egypt and Gaza officially opened on Monday, but with severe restrictions. |
| 0:50.4 | So far, around 30 people have been allowed to leave Gaza for medical treatment, out of an estimated |
| 0:56.4 | 20,000 that need it. |
| 0:59.2 | Al Jazeera's Hind Hodari reported on Friday from the headquarters of the Palestinian Red |
| 1:03.7 | Crescent in Han Yunus, where Palestinians have been gathering to leave Gaza to Egypt. |
| 1:10.2 | No one is informing Palestinians when does this crossing opens, when does it close? |
| 1:18.6 | What is the process? And since Monday, since the Raffa Crossing started operating, |
| 1:24.6 | only 145 Palestinians along along patients along with their companions |
| 1:31.3 | left the Gaza Strip and only 98 were allowed to return so the numbers are very |
| 1:37.3 | little we're talking about at least 20,000 Palestinians that need medical urgent |
| 1:42.8 | medical evacuation and the numbers that are leaving the Gaza |
| 1:46.8 | Strip are very very little and also the process is very long where even Palestinians returning |
| 1:54.5 | are saying that they are taking very long hours waiting to cross back also they're being |
| 2:00.7 | interrogated they're being handcuffed, |
| 2:02.6 | blindfolded, and they're also being harassed by the Israeli forces. So this is not what |
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