Overview
- AFP journalists observed Jolie at the Egyptian side of Rafah as she assessed conditions affecting civilians in Gaza during the ongoing ceasefire period.
- She met Red Crescent volunteers and humanitarian truck drivers who reported hundreds of aid trucks waiting to move through the crossing.
- Jolie arrived with a U.S. delegation and said she felt honored to meet NGO volunteers working near the terminal.
- Neither Jolie nor authorities have issued official statements about the visit so far.
- Egypt and six other Muslim-majority countries released a joint communiqué demanding Israel guarantee sustainable, predictable and unrestricted humanitarian operations, while Rafah has not fully reopened since the October 10 ceasefire and a December exits-only proposal was rejected by Cairo.