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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
In his speech to Arab trade unionists on May 26, Nasser announced: "If Israel embarks on an aggression against Syria or Egypt, the battle against Israel will be a general one and not confined to one spot on the Syrian or Egyptian borders. The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel."
During the 2008-2009 Gaza War, Egypt condemned the Israeli attacks, but Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said that Egypt has long warned Hamas that this would be Israel's response should Qassam fire continue. [29] As a result of many protests, Egypt opened up the Rafah Border Crossing to allow the wounded into Egyptian hospitals. [30]
The Rafah crossing, which is controlled by Egypt and does not border Israel, has become the main point of aid delivery since Israel imposed a siege on Gaza in retaliation for an atta