Kerem Shalom
![Anthony Blinken.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=700/2024/05/14/6e7c5ba0-11f8-11ef-ae3e-5ba489b5eb8e__h4321_w6481.jpg)
The Secretary of State spoke with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, demanding he open the Rafah border crossing to humanitarian aid and added that the flow of aid needed to be expanded both at Rafah and Kerem Shalom.
![Trucks from Kerem Shalom crossing.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/05/12/b5fd9390-104f-11ef-90bc-6511137cc1af__h3943_w5915.jpg)
Israel-Gaza War
This time, both projectiles detected by the IDF were intercepted and no damage caused.
Israel-Gaza War
The attack came hours after the crossing was declared open for humanitarian aid.
Israel-Gaza War
The Kerem Shalom crossing had been opened at American insistence despite being the site of a deadly Hamas attack days before.
![Aid trucks seized by Hamas. Illustration.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/05/05/e15567f0-0ad4-11ef-ae3e-5ba489b5eb8e__h4409_w6613.jpg)
Israel-Gaza War
The Air Force struck targets in the Rafah area related to the projectile launch in response.
![Protesters at Kerem Shalom crossing](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/03/07/487ebfc0-dc73-11ee-bbda-93c9fb230a79__h331_w650.jpeg)
Israel-Gaza War, Humanitarian Aid
Demonstrators are protesting at the Kerem Shalom crossing as a bereaved mother blocked the passage and shouted, "Our children's blood is paying for this."
![Ten Arrested Trying to Block Humanitarian Aid Into Gaza Due to No Hostage Releases](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/01/31/b8bedf90-c044-11ee-aa6e-77968757f996__h331_w650.jpeg)
Israel-Gaza War, Humanitarian Aid, Hostages
After a week of protests blockading humanitarian aid into Gaza without freed hostages, the Israel Police has begun to use much more force, including horse-mounted officers and special forces.
![Activists and Families of Hostages Continue to Block Aid to Gaza](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/01/26/39998160-bc49-11ee-8c05-7fe1aa7dfba1__h331_w650.jpeg)
Israel-Gaza War, Hostages
Activists of the Order Nine movement arrived at Kerem Shalom crossing to block aid going into Gaza. Watch:
!["Humanitarian for humanitarian" protests, demanding that aid not come in unless hostages come out, are expected to only increase.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/01/25/58fdfc30-bbbc-11ee-adaf-d9320ff81fe5__h5760_w8640.jpg)
Kerem Shalom, Hostages, Humanitarian Aid
For the past two days, protests against sending humanitarian aid to Gaza without freeing the hostages have prevented dozens of trucks carrying humanitarian aid from passing through. The US administration is not pleased.
![The Man Seriously Wounded from Kerem Shalom: "Angels Pushed the Terrorists Out"](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/12/11/ccc33b30-9826-11ee-8e6a-8375fec8ebd5__h331_w650.png)
Miraculous Recovery
Amichai Schindler was mortally wounded in the attack on Simchat Torah, he lost a hand and three fingers on the other hand, yet his view of the situation is one of faith, of a kind eye and immense gratitude for the miracles and the heroics.
![The Abductees are Now Making their Way to the Rafah Crossing](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/11/26/f9b57310-8c73-11ee-8914-e3c659c1040a__h331_w650.jpg)
Hostage Deal
Tonight (Sunday) the third phase of the release of the abductees begins, the first step has begun: 14 Israeli abductees have reached the Red Cross, of which 9 are children and 4 are women, and in addition an Israeli abductee with Russian citizenship will be released.
![The Heroes who Saved Kibbutz Kerem Shalom. View the Documentation](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/10/22/e912ae60-70f8-11ee-b7a1-1906212e89de__h446_w806.jpg)
Heroes
The commander of the rapid-response squad in Kibbutz Kerem Shalom talks about the heroes who fought off numerous terrorists and saved the kibbutz: "What broke was the technology and the concrete walls, but the human wall did not break." Watch the video.
![The heroic battle of Amichai Israel Witzan and Yedidya Razi'el, z"l](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/10/09/775e2ab0-669e-11ee-b177-59b3ed0fceec__h331_w650.jpg)
Heroic Battles
The epic story of Amichai Witzan and Yedidya Razi'el, who fought valiantly in the Battle of Courage at Kerem Shalom in the emergency squad for hours against the murderers and defended the kibbutz with their own bodies. These friends who grew up together, studied together, lived together, and fell together
![Former minister Yizhar Shai announced: My son was killed in Kerem Shalom](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2023/10/08/bef07c20-6612-11ee-9c9b-03b32e04a4fc__h331_w650.jpg)
"My Son was Killed"
Former Minister of Science, Yizhar Shai, announced this evening that his son, Yaron, fell in battle against terrorists in Kerem Shalom. The number of casualties has now risen to over 700, with more than 2,000 wounded