By Erin Banco, Jonathan Landay and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire shortages of food and medical aid.

COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, said in a statement that starting on Sunday a "limited movement of people only" would be allowed through the Rafah crossing, Gaza's main gateway to the outside world.

Sick and wounded patients in Gaza desperate for medical evacuation have pinned their hopes on the promised reopening of the enclave's Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

"We are at war. And even if a thousand people are killed by friendly fire, that is the price of war," PIJ's Akram al-Ajouri reportedly said.

The gateway to the world for Palestinians in Gaza — the Rafah border crossing to Egypt — is set to reopen Sunday after being largely shut since it was seized by Israel in May 2024.

Aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Tuesday after Israel said it had agreed to reopen the territory's key gateway to the outside world.

A key border crossing is set to reopen, the ceasefire is moving forward and the United States is imagining a gleaming new Gaza, but Palestinians in the devastated enclave are still struggling to simpl

Idealistic and glitzy visions of a future Gaza flowing out of Davos and regurgitated by the new "Board Of Peace" don't address foundational infrastructure problems.

There will be no reconstruction of the Gaza Strip until after the area is demilitarized and tunnels constructed by Hamas are destroyed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. He also warned Iran not to attack Israel,