Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton (2nd R) accompanied by North Sinai Governor Khaled Megawer (R) during his visit to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to observe firsthand humanitarian aid efforts for Palestinians affected by Israeli attacks in Rafah, Egypt, on November 10, 2026. [Stringer – Anadolu Agency]
Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton visited Egypt’s side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip yesterday, touring warehouses run by the Egyptian Red Crescent and meeting aid workers who prepare and send humanitarian supplies into the besieged enclave, the Associated Press reports.
Hamilton toured the crossing before visiting the Egyptian Red Crescent’s logistics warehouses in the North Sinai city of El Arish, where aid is prepared and coordinated before it enters Gaza. The Egyptian Red Crescent is the main humanitarian organisation handling aid shipments through Egypt to the Strip.
At the crossing, Hamilton greeted aid workers with “Al-Salamo Alaykom”, the Arabic greeting meaning “peace be upon you”, and shook hands and spoke briefly with workers and officials. Major General Khaled Megawer, the governor of North Sinai, accompanied the British driver and said the visit was meant to show him Egypt’s efforts to send aid to Gaza.
The visit comes as aid entering Gaza continues to fall far short of the minimum of 600 trucks a day agreed under the ceasefire reached last year. An independent commission of UN experts said last month that Israeli forces had expanded their control from 53 per cent of the territory to at least 60 per cent. The commission said Israeli fire along the advancing front had killed at least 196 Palestinians, including 18 women, 32 boys and 11 girls, while Israeli air strikes continue across the Strip.
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It is Hamilton’s second trip to the region to see aid efforts for Gaza. In December 2025, he travelled to Jordan with the British Red Cross. There he met teams from the Jordan Red Crescent and Palestine Red Crescent societies who were preparing aid for Gaza, and visited a Jordan Red Crescent hospital treating children evacuated from the Strip for medical care.
Hamilton described that visit as life-changing and called for humanitarian organisations to be given unrestricted access to Gaza, warning that “the trickle of aid currently reaching Gaza is nowhere near enough.” He also donated to the British Red Cross’s Gaza appeal.
Hamilton has been one of the most prominent sporting voices on Gaza. In May 2024, he called for an end to Israel’s attacks on the Strip, writing “Enough is enough.” In September 2025, after a UN commission concluded that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, he urged the public to support aid groups and said he had donated to three organisations working there. Last month, at a news conference ahead of the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, he called for freedom for Palestine, Congo, Sudan and Syria.
The visit to Egypt came two days after Hamilton made his 400th race start at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos. Hamilton, who drives for Ferrari, is the first Black driver to race in F1. He is only the second driver in the sport’s history to reach 400 starts, after his former teammate Fernando Alonso, who did so in 2024.
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