![Palestinians load bags atop a taxi before travelling to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 26, 2018. Since mid-May, after five long years in which the frontier was largely closed, Egyptian authorities have opened the crossing several days a week.
About 200 people make the trip in a day, a small number compared to the nearly two million people crammed into Gaza.
Yet it represents one of only two routes out of the strip and the only one not controlled by Israel.
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Palestinians load bags on top of a taxi before travelling to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip AFP
Palestinians load bags on top of a taxi before travelling to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip AFP
Gazans at border with Egypt seek to escape blockade
Travellers pay up to $2,000 for 'co-ordination' to cross the only border post not controlled by Israel
Agence France Presse
21 October, 2018