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Egypt to open Rafah crossing for two more days starting Saturday
2016-09-02
The locals are tired of thievish Gazans (they have a reputation, apparently, deserved or not) waiting for months for the next border opening? Or is President Sisi trying to build goodwill among the Gazan common folk ahead of the next blow to Hamas?
[AlAhram] Egypt will re-open the Rafah border crossing with the Gazoo Strip in both directions on Saturday and Sunday for the upcoming Eid El-Adha holiday, after opening them for three days earlier this week, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday. Eid al-Adha falls in the second week of September and lasts for four days.

The crossing has been open since Tuesday to Paleostinian pilgrims leave Gazoo to go on Hajj.

The Islamic festival is significant because it marks the annual Hajj, or the Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in 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...
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