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That Egypt won’t open its border for a humanitarian corridor to let out hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Gazans reflect serious, and legitimate, concerns, write Ghaith al-Omari and ...
A Palestinian border official told CNN that Egypt had blocked the gates of the crossing with concrete slabs. Egypt has denied reports that it has closed its side of the crossing, and said the ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will not accept any changes to the security arrangements that were in place on its border with Gaza before war broke out between Israel and Hamas last October, the Egyptian ...
Egypt partly opened the Rafah border crossing from Egypt to Gaza, primarily for people, but not for supplies, to go through. [120] The Israeli NGO Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement reported in a July 2010 publication [121] that Israel continues to prevent normal functioning of the Gazan economy. Israel continues to severely restrict ...
The Rafah Border Crossing is the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It has been closed for the transfer of commercial goods since 2007, and Egypt maintained that it would only open the crossing if forces from the Palestinian Authority presidential guard and a European supervisory force returned to guard the border crossing. [11]
As a result of many protests, Egypt opened up the Rafah Border Crossing to allow the wounded into Egyptian hospitals. [30] The Egyptian Ministry of Health sent 30 buses to North Sinai to help transport injured Palestinians. [31] The Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs said that Hamas does not allow the wounded Gazans to cross the borders to ...
CAIRO (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of Palestinians waited at roadblocks to return to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday, voicing frustration after Israel accused Hamas of breaching a ceasefire ...
After Hamas kidnapped Gilad Shalit, the Rafah border was closed on 25 June 2006, although the incident did not happen in Rafah. Since then, the crossing was only irregularly opened for very limited cases. The border was never opened for the passage of goods. [11] When Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007, Egypt and Israel closed the borders ...