Angelina Joliehas visited the Gaza border as part of a humanitarian tour.
The actor and director travelled to theRafah border crossing– the main aid crossing route into the enclave from Egypt – which has been closed since Israel seized it in May 2024.
Her visit comes amid growing condemnation of Israel for not reopening the crossing, which had previously allowed Palestinians to flee the conflict, as well as being a key entry point forhumanitarian aid.
Accompanied by an American delegation, Jolie, a former special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency, said she was honoured to meet aid volunteers atthe border crossing.
She made the visit to see the condition of injured Palestinians transferred to Egypt and to look into aid deliveries into the devastated territory, according to Egyptian reports.
In a joint statement on Friday, Egypt and six other countries, including Saudi Arabia, "urged the international community to pressure Israel, as the occupying power, to immediately lift the constraints on the entry and distribution of essential supplies" toGaza.
During Jolie's visit, an aid volunteer told the Oscar winner that "there are thousands of aid trucks just waiting" at the border crossing. Both Jolie and the Egyptian authorities have yet to comment on the visit.
Jolie was also seen talking to a truck driver and getting information about humanitarian aid waiting to be given approval to cross into Gaza.
The Rafah crossing was set to be reopened under the ceasefire in effect in Gaza since October, but has so far remained closed.
In early December,Israelannounced that it would only be opened for those wishing to leave Gaza, prompting Cairo to swiftly deny that it had approved such a move.
Four other crossings into Gaza from Israel are open, allowing some4,200 trucks with humanitarian aidto enter the enclave every week, but humanitarian organisations say it is far from enough.
Jolie has been vocal in her criticism of Israel since the beginning of its war in Gaza. Three weeks after the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, she said the massacre "cannot justify the innocent lives lost in bombing a civilian population in Gaza that has nowhere to go".
In November 2023, she accused Israel of violating international law by "deliberately bombing children, women, families, deprived of food, medicine and humanitarian aid".
Jolie said world leaders were complicit in "crimes" and described Gaza as having been an "open-air prison" for nearly two decades.
The actor was criticised byIsaac Herzog, Israel's president,who accused her of "not offering the Israeli people any ability to defend themselves" and not being aware of "the facts on the ground".
Jolie again criticised Israel and the UN Security Council in September last year for "treating some lives as important and others as disposable", referring to Palestinians in Gaza. "None of this is happening by accident. It is intentional," she said.
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