As Israeli tanks seize the Rafah crossing, where will Palestinians in Gaza go? | The Take

Israeli forces have seized control of Gaza’s Rafah border crossing, cutting off a vital route for humanitarian aid and potential sanctuary for civilians from a building offensive. What's next for the people stranded there?
In this episode:
Sara Khairat, Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili and Khaled Soltan with our host Malika Bilal. Catherine Nouhan and Fahrinisa Campana fact-checked this episode.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

[@nojo1710]

As an American it really makes me sick to my stomach to see what is happening to the people in Gaza. What can I do but send my blessings for a free Palestine. My heart really hurts for the mother's. I can't even imagine. 💔💔💔

[@PB-jk8bl]

Me too! It is absolutely disgusting what Hamas has done them and bringing war upon their own citizens!

[@wakizashipwreck]

@@PB-jk8bl 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@PB-jk8bl]

@@wakizashipwreck 🇮🇱🏆🇮🇱🏆🇮🇱🏆🇮🇱🏆🇮🇱🏆

[@HolyOrthodoxChristian]

So sad, I am positive most people would stay put if it was happening to them in their city to be close to their families. So much sorrow and devastation. 😭 I feel the same as you do as does most of the world..

[@PB-jk8bl]

@@HolyOrthodoxChristian unbelievable that so many are blaming Israel for the devastation brought on by Hamas. It's sickening!🤮

[@historyalwayslie]

“The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.” - Norman Finkelstein.

[@dajudy5470]

Yes,this is big true.

[@8aNda1d]

Who is he?

[@romanahowe67]

A jewish historian

[@markkelly9621]

The Holocaust will be taught in every western school curriculum. Presumably with the stated goal of ensuring what happened is never forgotten so we can ensure it never happens again. However, what is the point of that, if whenever anybody cites similarities to the Holocaust in current events, that large sections of society spit the dummy out and find it insulting? If we don't use history to learn to act on current events then why bother have anyone study it?

[@Valkron11]

People should hear how Blaze TV mocks and laughs at the suffering in Gaza. Pat Grey repeatedly went so far to say the land needed cleansing of every living creature there. The level of evil in the world is shocking

[@reecetadman6108]

Blaze tv isn’t that a tv channel not

[@californianorma876]

vile 😢😢😢

[@omarharo3132]

As a Catholic, I am ashamed of mainstream American Christians.

[@JohnGeary-e9e]

Who and What is a Pat Grey is he/she a grey alien from Blaze alien program?

[@PB-jk8bl]

@@omarharo3132 you should be ashamed of yourself for blindly following a false religion based on idolatry!

[@muhammadbilalassistantdire4620]

Humanity has died as we see the atrocities. 😢

[@PenArrowNation]

We stand firm with the good and forbid the evil.

[@willy5538]

It's a disaster poor people no food no water no basic medicine it's terrible people dying from hunger Gaza is concentration camp

[@roystonboodoo7525]

Highly armored bullies with high tech weaponry and munitions begged from the US.

[@historyalwayslie]

West are building Israel, as they built USA, on genocide, 500 years ago. Between the late 15th and late 17th centuries, 130 million indigenous Mississippian, Pueblo, Aztec , Inca peoples are estimated to have died in deadly massacres, mass rapes, forced starvations, wars, chattel slavery imposed by European settlers. West built Australia, Canada, New zealand, on Genocide, A Text book example of systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing. This time, it's on Tv , Live, before our very Eyes “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain

[@CBPunisher1900]

Then why did they all have 10 kids per family

[@Flaaaaanders]

@@historyalwaysliesame could be said for Islam mr history. Mr ‘one sided history’ more like it

[@userNKg11]

​@@CBPunisher1900what do you mean by that

[@mehruneusufzai2341]

Thank you so much Al Jazeera's all the correspondence updates on the Rafah's situations. It's a tragedy what the Gaza Palestinians are going through. Just watching on TV these blood shades, tragedy for seven months makes us exhausted. I have a heart condition 'Angina'. It makes my stress level very high. My blood pressure goes high. I don't know how Palestinians are serving? This is insane. The UN should send troops in Rafa. My prayers for all the Palestinians stay strong and safe. Freedom is in their way. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@horatiowhite2357]

Wow. I kept thinking what the mad concern for rafah was and I now see. HOW CAN YOU HAVE A FAMINE WHEN PEOPLE NOT EVEN 20 MILES AWAY HAVE PLENTY???

[@userNKg11]

While aid trucks are lined up standing stationary on the Egyptian. Side.

[@8aNda1d]

​@@userNKg11while stacks and stacks and truck loads and truck loads are sitting on the Gazan side waiting to be distributed. Let's not forget, Hamas owned up to bombing the most used area for delivering supplies. Not once but twice.

[@liveandletlive-q7x]

Down right evil and vicious

[@horatiowhite2357]

Every time the IDF turn up it gets wild! The crossing had a minimal amount of humanitarian aid getting in, IDF turn up and all of a sudden no aid is getting through. They don’t care about their own as if the Palestinians are starving so are their hostages? It a madness

[@leannefranson1198]

​@@8aNda1dlol. You lie. Israel said it would cut off all food and necessities of life in October. It has continued to do it. IDF boasts about doing it. Israeli citizens go to the border crossings to have parties closing the crossings and boast about it. It's all over the internet, posted by themselves. Israel opens fire on citizens getting aid, ie the flour massacre. Opens fire on aid workers distributing aid, over 200 including the World Central Kitchen workers. Israel stopped UNRWA getting funding and now banned them with no evidence. Israel has bombed food trucks. We are not blind, deaf, dumb. Israel 100% is using food and water and medicine for collective punishment.

[@RobertMacpherson-t7m]

God this is horrible 😢

[@fatimaabidalikhan4057]

its unbelievable that no one is willing to stop it ya Allah please stop these monsters

[@artcomdesigninternational6969]

They should prepare for the rewards from Allah in folds.

[@Izaz21]

Be patient, keep making dua, Help is very close

[@chuckrogers4917]

Allah is obviously on the side of Israel. Wouldn't you agree?

[@salinarahman5379]

Allah please stop their suffering send help from you like you did before 🤲

[@гогованесса]

​@@chuckrogers4917thats why Israel wins!

[@darrellernst5493]

Netanyahu is in a lose or lose situation. Netanyahu has become a man with nothing to win and nothing to lose which makes him the world's most dangerous man.

[@somoonsie4935]

No wonder a person was so so angry to them in the past...

[@davidbrown7841]

Shame on you Israel, US and the Western Allies 😂

[@uzeirdalip9499]

War criminals. I pray one day they get held to account.

[@DestroyHate.]

Aww yes definitely, Hamas will get held to account for all evil he has done.

[@wakizashipwreck]

@@DestroyHate.🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@leannefranson1198]

​@@DestroyHate.what Hamas did Oct 7 was war crimes. Taking hostages was war crimes. By the same measures, Israel and IDF have committed 7 months of war crimes, not one day. Thousands of times worse. We are all waiting for trials for both.

[@гогованесса]

thats what israeli defence forces are fighting against ;)

[@pearabegum3027]

Everything that has a beginning has an end. What happened in Pompeii. What happened to Ramses when Moses returned. All will be revealed soon. Same will happen to Natanyahoo.

[@babbalonian2]

We were warned 80 years ago, about those people.

[@moniquederksen1902]

Yep Albert Einstein did and many a academics, sended letters to NYT, they warned about the Zionists terrorattacks, others did too but no one listened.

[@dogsbestfriend8988]

100%

[@rehamanshaik8155]

Free free Palestine and brother and sister 🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@TheTruth-jg6jo]

Free the HOSTAGES❤❤❤

[@wakizashipwreck]

@@TheTruth-jg6jothe 5000 Palestinians ones, right?

[@spoppe0724]

Palestine Free

[@smn2666]

​@@wakizashipwreckbefore doing anything to that 130 hostages remember that Israel has 5000 hostages. And imagine what they can do to them.

[@CBPunisher1900]

free it of islam?

[@amcm15]

End the occupation. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@Marymare-katniss]

Free free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸☮️😔😔

[@richardwright4265]

free as the wind blows

[@salinarahman5379]

Feel heart broken for them 💔it so hard to see their suffering . They deserves their independence their own state.

[@saagisharon8595]

so you condone their complicity in raping/murdering, or taking defenseless civilians as hostages like that woman with her two (redhead) sons? you call hamas a legitimate resistance group that demands the release of full blown murderers? will those released murderers start leading a normal life in that permanent ceasefire that they have every reason to break? they are not getting rewarded with a state unless you want them to repeat their actions

[@salinarahman5379]

Killing each other is not the solution ,what I think… if they have their own state they will mind their own business ,it just my opinion.

[@saagisharon8595]

@@salinarahman5379 glad you acknowledge it as an opinion, but it just doesn't work that way look no further than your own personal experience, the more you give-the more they want

[@historyalwayslie]

West are building Israel, as they built USA, on genocide, 500 years ago. Between the late 15th and late 17th centuries, 130 million indigenous Mississippian, Pueblo, Aztec , Inca peoples are estimated to have died in deadly massacres, mass rapes, forced starvations, wars, chattel slavery imposed by European settlers. West built Australia, Canada, New zealand, on Genocide, A Text book example of systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing. This time, it's on Tv , Live, before our very Eyes “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain

[@californianorma876]

Spot on 💔💔💔

[@susanWilder2175]

This a report for people who haven’t been following this catastrophe

[@PauloRoberto-jf8kg]

Livre Palestina 🇵🇸🇧🇷🇪🇦🇮🇹

[@happykitten5695]

Peace & LOVE 🕊❤‍🔥.

[@bashanafrank6778]

Free Palestine 🇰🇼🇰🇼🇰🇼

[@rehamanshaik8155]

Most WANTED Netanyahu and Biden and Rishi sunak and Emmanuel macron and Antony albanese and Justin Trudeau and Anthony Blinken Lloyd Austin John Kirby and Donald Trump and Kamal Harris and Olaf Scholz and Mohammed bin Salman and Jordan King Abdullah and Elon musk and ulf kristersson Ben gvir and Abdul fattah and Erdogan and W bush Abraham Lincoln and Jack Suleman Nikki Haley Kamal Harris and

[@Jeweldoeshair]

They all need to be put on trial for war crimes

[@marianelamartinez8383]

Palestine will be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@thesaltyshakerLoL]

what is palestine?

[@RoheZg]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@peterpantv8303]

Keyboard warriors 😅

[@angamnoklangphom5711]

True. It should be free from the world map

[@leannefranson1198]

​@@thesaltyshakerLoLoh, what a great smartass answer. What is genocide... you should easily relate to that one.

[@cornbread206]

WE SAID CEASE FIRE NOT "SEIZE"...."FIRE"! smdh

[@eriksporkslede4334]

What comes around, goes around.....

[@johnwinter7597]

Yes that’s what’s happening

[@umarlassi4330]

@@johnwinter7597I didn’t realise israel has ‘their’ land seized by tanks. I must’ve missed something

[@umarlassi4330]

@AhmedAbudog history is not what sky news posts online 😌

[@luizmanar6025]

La hawla.quwata ila billeh.

[@alinanji6469]

Thanks Al-Jazeera for updating the present situation in Occupied territories, hope you will Continue the reports.

[@AdeFauzia-k7t]

ya Allaah pls do something to help Palestina now?

[@IqrarRaza-fr6mh]

Thanks

[@pugs425]

Stop it, America

[@sheikhimran9121]

Shame on Saudi Arabia doing nothing for Gaza 😭

[@pangkiatloh4555]

In 1967 USS Liberty was bombed by the Israel. 34 US Navy were killed & many were wounded. The US gov. covered up the tragedy. 🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭In 1967 USS Liberty was bombed by the Israel. 34 US Navy were killed & many were wounded. The US gov. covered up the attack. 🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭

[@NamanaPalasu]

saying, Leave Rafah ! and then continue to occupy the exit from Rafah. Which speak louder ? Talk or Act ?

[@Emmadaniels100]

Mercy!

[@syahmax20275]

Please i request to every person who have heart. Plz stand with humanity. Stand with Palestine.

[@stygianfug6322]

Didn't they get it days ago? Why not report on something new instead of old news?

[@californianorma876]

huh???

[@leannefranson1198]

Whatever are you talking about?

[@stevengibbs8117]

Israel takes land that’s 50% Egypt and 50% palestines …

[@rashidqamar4698]

salute you Aljazera shows truth

[@Luisvargas-us4xv]

🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇺🇸🇧🇷🇦🇷🇯🇴🇾🇪 !!! YISRA'EL VIVE ETERNAMENTE. YA'ER HASHEM PANAV ELEJA SHALOM SOBRE YISRA'EL ❤...... ..........................

[@71suns]

No .

[@bosnianaviation5531]

I am Bosnian and I support Israel

[@Flaaaaanders]

Free hostages

[@alexanderboulton2123]

Im sorry but "people like France" is soo funny 🤣🤣

[@HolyOrthodoxChristian]

So sad, I am positive most people would stay put if it was happening to them in their city to be close to their families. So much sorrow and devastation. 😭

[@HasanDasu]

Save Palestine 🇵🇸I ❤️Palestine

[@joelibogitolu4066]

If you do not move to the safe zone, then you must accept what consequences that happen to you.

[@umarlassi4330]

There is no where safe

[@PenArrowNation]

That’s bs. Or cow s.

[@Jeweldoeshair]

There is no safe zone in Gaza. Israel has said that for 7 months yet still bombed and attacked those called “safe zones”

[@californianorma876]

WHAT SAFE ZONE??? Khan Younis and the rest are RUBBLE and unexploded ordinance is everywhere. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Try again

[@leidij7476]

Why aren’t the Middle Eastern leaders do anything to help the Palestinians in Gaza?????

[@syahmax20275]

Unspeakable situation in gaza. 😢

[@kam70111]

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Learn how to live in peace together.

[@user-ib2pp3nr2y]

Palestine 🇵🇸 will be Free

[@alikoyaup]

Really war is the weapon of a coward against the innocent.

[@AlQuddus-lk7om]

Shame on the world's silence

[@GeraldaUrbanczyk]

WHO IS IN CHARGE ISRAEL OR THE 🇺🇸 😮ENOUGH

[@TheTruth-jg6jo]

FREE THE HOSTAGES❤❤❤

[@MarionThi]

Ja ! Aber ich hätte Bedenken, dass die IDF Soldaten sie nicht vorher umbringen. Aber sie könnten auch verhungern… kommt ja kein Wasser und kein Essen 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@lukasbudiman9116]

لَا يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِٱللَّغْوِ فِىٓ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَاخِذُكُم بِمَا عَقَّدتُّمُ ٱلْأَيْمَٰنَ ۖ فَكَفَّٰرَتُهُۥٓ إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَٰكِينَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ ۖ فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلَٰثَةِ أَيَّامٍ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ كَفَّٰرَةُ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ إِذَا حَلَفْتُمْ ۚ وَٱحْفَظُوٓا۟ أَيْمَٰنَكُمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ , , .ولم أسمعه يرخص في شيء مما يقول الناس إلا في ثلاث: تعني الحرب، والإصلاح بين الناس، وحديث الرجل امرأته، وحديث المرأة زوجها., . ,

[@RosangelaSousa-h1j]

Eu gosto de assistir a Aljazera ,só que não entendo, poderia traduzir em português do Brasil

[@cheryllines4106]

MACKLEMORE RELEASED A AMAZING TRACK 4 SUPPORT OF PALESTINE- HINDS HALL ! IT GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS 🙏

[@samchaudhri7417]

One moment they said they wouldn't attack Rafah.

[@saagisharon8595]

one moment after, hamas changes their mind about rejecting a ceasefire

[@samchaudhri7417]

@@saagisharon8595 it's Israel who are using the excuse of Hamaz to kill innocent children and women. This has been going on since 1948. Multiple times. Even Bidens said he's not financing this genocide. Claiming illogical things like they bomb hospitals because Hamas are there, ridiculous. Millions are with Palestine.

[@zelani7]

Lailaha illallah Muhammad rasoolillah ❤

[@foxmulderfbiufo1770]

Y'all blame Israel but none of the Arab nations have done anything to help

[@mrbadiuzzaman]

Where are the Egyptians? Didn't Sisi threaten to end the peace agreement with Israel

[@waltermesser9737]

It was a joke! No sense of humour!

[@Ro-oot]

I love it when the left is in charge. This is what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum. What we do to each other, it’s become disgusting.

[@sharifpathan2251]

Egypt 🇪🇬 👏 Coward Without M. Morsi😢😢😢.

[@shoaibrasool9640]

May Allah mercy on palestinians 😢

[@krengken4082]

The ICC has merits to issued the Arrest Warrant to S-Yahoo, Ben Gvir and their complicit over Genocide, War Crime, Land confiscated and illegal transaction in Gaza and West Bank

[@asadwimarta4448]

Semoga Allah, mencabut nikmat berjalan para tentara Israel, aamiin

[@drudru5992]

Look you people need to move north to safer ground and get away from what is about to come. All is lost the only thing to do is save yourself.😢. You can rebuild and start all over again. But right now the priority is to save yourself and your family. Hamas has lost the war. The only thing they could do is take as many innocent civilians with them in the hopes the international community will step in and stop Israel. Which is absolutely delusional thinking 😮.

[@JayJay-sb3ib]

ALLAH Hu Akbar 💪💪💪💪💪

[@willcall9431]

This is very sad. I wish Hamas didn’t attack on Oct 7th. This wouldn’t be happening right now.

[@victoriad8515]

This has been going on way before Oct 7th...

[@willcall9431]

Actually this particular conflict is because of the actions people took on that day. Certainly they have been fighting for centuries.

[@spoppe0724]

Next time elect a democratic government. Hamas rejected Blinken plan. Hamas moved South too. Blame Hamas for the disparity.

[@PingPong-wr1cl]

As Israeli tanks seize the Rafah crossing, where will Palestinians in Gaza go? Just follow the instructions of The IDF...for shelter safety medicine water fuel ...

[@EmreDemirkayaLoves]

I have decided that i want to live in Palestine 💯 Rebuilding & Healing Love from the Netherlands 🤎

[@abdugofur3782]

😢😢😢

[@fewcommentsonnews.4842]

In the real perspectives from my point of view , I DONT believe MR.ADAMANT Benjamin Netanyahu goes to regreeting about of his actions or would be taken to decision to step down his powerfull PRIME Ministerof issues being in charge for . In conclusion If the NEO- Zionism is allowed to expanding his borders , What will be the next Country ?

[@misafir716]

War criminals

[@eddiepiecart6030]

The are doing now what they have done for eternity, yet they wonder why the world hates them. They are bringing it all upon themselves again.

[@DestroyHate.]

💕Israel 🇮🇱 💕🇮🇱 IDF💕🇮🇱💕

[@71suns]

NOT ANYMORE

[@mojoe3012]

Bibi said they can't eat🤷🏽

[@RobertMaldonado-y6f]

It’s obvious they don’t need to go anywhere but back to the north 💯%fact

[@lubachsiron8524]

Typical example of the third law of Newton. Action (7/10)=reaction.

[@kroubian]

They will go North Most are from the North Stop making such silly reports

[@luischinyung3891]

❤Shabbat Shalom,May God Yahweh bless IDF Soldiers to guide and to defence this country all people's who are wise minded are always bless by Yahweh Elohim ku Amen,Amen. Allahuakbar, ❤ Allahuakbar Aamiin,Aamiin.Praise Yahweh,Elohim ku,Amen..

[@ZihanHussainJiffry-sl9zp]

Allahu akbar la howla vala koovatha illa billah

[@Businessvally]

Free Palestine

[@Clayann-vv2uu]

Egypt ,Jordan Ummah?

[@padimills1494]

Love to hear your bias commentary on how bad thing are in Gaza.

[@Mac-ix4qp]

Probably under rubble somewhere in Gaza if NuttyYahoo has his way.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

Quran says Israel 🇮🇱 43 times no Palestine in Quran

[@AbbasiKurdi]

Israel is the name of the noble Prophet Ya'qub (Jacob) عليه السلام (blessings upon him). You on the other hand are neither his descendants nor do you've anything else in common to him.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@AbbasiKurdi Quran Sura 5:20-26 Allah gave LAND of _____? To Musa Moses and his people Yehudi Jews. Was that land Brooklyn NY? Thousands of writing artifacts written records from Egypt Greeks Rome Assyria Persia Babylon all say Israel a land and people long before Islam existed 622CE. Enough alter history versions from your theology. A type of flat earth Tardish insanity from these people. Crazy .

[@californianorma876]

The Qur'an respects all the Prophets, truly. And countries, as we know the, today, are a MODERN CONSTRUCTION 🤦🏽‍♀️🫵🏽🤣🤣🤣 You must be lonely, bless your heart

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@californianorma876 There are thousands of writing artifacts written records from Egypt Greeks Rome Assyria Persia Babylon all say Israel a land and people. Menespeth Stele Bronze age Egypt 1200bce. Tel Dan Stele 9 th century BCE say Israel 🇮🇱. I am not lonely to busy defending our ancestral home land Israel.

[@chairiyahutbah7548]

Israel is real Tetoris

[@shaysdy3357]

❤❤❤👍👍👍🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@richardwright4265]

I guess Israel says FJB

[@ummyh5804]

Where is Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey?

[@halim8462]

Where is iran

[@Stealthmode35]

Gazans messed with John wick.. 😄

[@Travers-kx4zk]

There's no one starving there, they're getting handouts

[@californianorma876]

People do not have enough food. Try again.

[@waltermesser9737]

Like the last 75 years. Work? This is for suckers.

[@brunojvaldez7277]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@mdrahmanrahman]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇧🇩❤️

[@AI.Absurdity]

🕊☮

[@user-ib2pp3nr2y]

U N?