Beyond Rafah's gates, a politics of life and death (opens in new tab)

On the road from Cairo to the Egypt–Gaza border, passing through no fewer than ten security checkpoints, a bus convoy of over 150 Egyptian journalists inches towards the gates of an internationally enabled genocide. It's 19 January 2025, and this state-organised expedition – a 20-hour round trip from the capital, with up to two hours on the ground at the Rafah crossing – represents the Egyptian press's sole opportunity to witness firsthand the isolated, militarised doorstep to the decimated (...