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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 ...
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 foreign minister ...
The blockade of the Gaza Strip is a system of restrictions on movement and goods in Gaza imposed by Israel since the early 1990s. [1] After Hamas took over in 2007, Israel significantly intensified existing movement restrictions and imposed a complete blockade on the movement of goods and people in and out of the Gaza Strip. [2]
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 ...
Egypt crossing may open for Gazans fleeing Israeli attack ‘Big mistake’: Biden warns Israel against occupying Gaza Israeli tanks mass on border ahead of ‘imminent invasion’
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 ...