Egypt reopens border with Gaza for two days
Egypt: Egypt reopened its Rafah border with the Hamas-ruled
Gaza Strip on Wednesday for two days to enable students and the sick to
move in and out, and Jordan sent 227 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza
Strip through the WestBank.
Rafah border, the only one that bypasses Israel, opened for two days
to allow the passage of Palestinian students and the sick, including
thousands who were stuck on the Egyptian side for several days.
Security sources recalled the Rafah crossing has been largely closed
since June 2006, when Gaza militants captured an Israeli soldier named
Gilad Shalit in a deadly cross-border raid.
Since then, Tel Aviv obtained collaboration from El Cairo to tighten
its blockade against Gaza Strip, where there are a million and half
inhabitants surviving on foreign aid, particularly since Hamas seized
control in June 2007.
"Palestinian patients who finished their treatment at Egyptian
hospitals and other humanitarian cases will be allowed to return back
home," Egypt's official MENA news agency quoted Palestinian embassy
official Mohammed Arafat as saying on Monday.
Foreign passport holders, students studying outside the Palestinian
territories and humanitarian cases will also cross into Egypt, Arafat
said.
El Cairo, Prensa Latina
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