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Palestinians returning to Gaza recount arduous journeys through Rafah crossing

(4 Feb 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++CLIENTS NOTE: PLEASE USE UPDATED EDIT WHICH ADDS SOUNDBITE IN SHOT 7++ ++NIGHT SHOTS++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 4 February 2026 1. Various of bus carrying Palestinians back from Egypt via Rafah crossing, arriving at Nasser Hospital 2. Various of people getting off bus, being greeted by relatives 3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samah Omran, returnee: ”Don't you dare emigrate! No one should leave! Enough suffering, enough pain! Two years we've been in agony, in pain, in hospitals, in poverty.” 4. Various of people hugging their relatives 5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samah Omran, returnee: "It's all exhausting. The whole journey is exhausting. Since we left at two o'clock yesterday, we've been standing. We're tired, so tired. But that's not the problem. It's my mother I left behind, my mother who was with me. I'm going back while she's dying. I go back, and she stays behind me.” 6. Various of people hugging and kissing their relatives 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Iman Omran, returnee: "I left at 2:00 AM and arrived at the Egyptians' side at 9:00 AM. After noon, I reached the Europeans and Palestinians (EU point/delegation involved in the crossing process). They (checkpoints) are a disaster; we've suffered greatly at their hands. We haven't seen anything good from them. Then they let us out, and we headed towards the Israelis.” 8. Various of people waiting near their bags 9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faresa Barbakh, returnee: "We suffered on our journey for three days, and two days at the crossing. I slept at the crossing one night. They let us out this afternoon, and it's been 11 hours. There were some obstacles; they had stopped someone, and that delayed us.” 10. People near the bus 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faresa Barbakh, returnee: "I saw the destruction, it's heartbreaking and painful. Nothing remains of our country. I couldn't have imagined what I saw.” 12. Various of people gathering, welcoming their relatives 13. Woman pulling her bag and leaving STORYLINE: The latest group of Palestinians returning to Gaza arrived into Khan Younis early Wednesday following the reopening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt earlier this week. One returnee said the journey was “exhausting” and took hours to return. “Since we left at two o'clock yesterday, we've been standing. We're tired, so tired. But that's not the problem. It's my mother I left behind, my mother who was with me,” said Samah Omran. It comes as Palestinians gathered on both sides of Gaza’s border with Egypt on Tuesday hoping to pass through the Rafah crossing, after its reopening was marred by delays, interrogations and uncertainty over who would be allowed to cross. On the Egyptian side were Palestinians who fled Gaza earlier in the Israel-Hamas war to seek medical treatment, according to Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News television. On the Gaza side, Palestinians in need of medical care that is unavailable in Gaza gathered at a hospital before ambulances moved toward Rafah, hoping for word that they would be allowed to cross the other way. The office of the North Sinai governor confirmed on Tuesday that an unknown number of patients and their companions had crossed from Gaza into Egypt. Though hailed as a step forward for the fragile ceasefire struck in October, it took more than 10 hours for only about a dozen returnees and a small group of medical evacuees to cross in each direction on the first day Rafah reopened. The import of humanitarian aid or goods through Rafah remains prohibited. =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...