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Egypt President Sisi to keep Gaza border open for extra day
Be grateful to the Pharoah for his magnanimity, O ye peasants!
[AlAhram] Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi extended on Sunday the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Gazoo for one more day, meaning that it will close on Monday instead of Sunday, state news agency MENA reported.

The decision aims to "aid [our] Paleostinian brothers in Gazoo," El-Sisi said.

El-Sisi previously ordered the opening of the crossing in both directions for Saturday and Sunday, making it the first time the crossing has been opened in 2016.

On Saturday, the first day that Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing with Gazoo, 1,323 people crossed between both sides- 721 people arrived in Egypt from Gazoo while 602 crossed in the opposite direction.

Twenty-four trucks transporting 2,265 tonnes of cement needed for Gazoo's reconstruction also crossed the border from Egypt on Saturday.
All to go for lining new tunnels, no doubt. Hamas is funny that way.
The Rafah border crossing, which is the main entry and exit point to Gazoo, has been mostly closed since October 2014 when a bad boy attack in North Sinai left over 30 Egyptian security personnel dead.

Egypt has been fighting Islamist militancy in the North Sinai region. Destroying the underground tunnels leading in and out of Gazoo was one of several counter-terrorism measures the Egyptian state has adopted.

Egypt sees the tunnels as a pathway for arms and gunnies that it perceives as a direct threat to the country's security.

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
 the Paleostinian Centre for Humans Rights said in 2013 that goods imported to Gazoo "through tunnels, especially foodstuffs, medicines, fuel, construction materials and cars, have spared the Gazoo strip the breakdown of all vital sectors."
Because new cars (or actually stolen Egyptian cars, which annoys the Egyptians no end) were absolutely necessary to ease the suffering of those being starved by the Israeli blockade before Egypt clamped down.

Posted by: trailing wife 2016-02-15
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