[AlAhram] Egyptian authorities have closed the Rafah border crossing following a three-day opening to allow Paleostinian pilgrims arriving from Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
to return to their homeland, an official at the border told MENA on Friday.
The total number of pilgrims who crossed the border during those two days was 2258, along with 29 Paleostinians who were being deported to the Gazoo strip.
Egyptian authorities have, for the most part, kept the Rafah crossing closed since October 2014, following attacks by Islamist snuffies in Egypt's governorate of North Sinai, which left over 30 security personnel dead.
The authorities have, on occasion, opened the crossing for an average of three-day periods, allowing those in need of medical care to travel to Egypt, and permitting other Paleostinians to travel in either direction.
Cairo has accused the Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the de facto rulers of the Israeli-besieged Gazoo Strip, of aiding turban groups in northern Sinai. Hamas has repeatedly denied the accusations.
| Since Hamas controls the smuggling tunnels, whether they are doing it or allowing it to be done is a distinction without a difference. But how is that smuggling thing going now that Egypt has completed its water-filled moat/fish pond along the Gazan border? |