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| Egypt opens border with Gaza for first time in 2 months |
| 2015-08-18 |
| [IsraelTimes] Director of crossing says 20,000 people applied to leave Strip, as border point opens for four days in both directions The Rafah Border Crossing opened Monday for four days, allowing Paleostinians to travel in both directions. Crossing director Khaled al-Shaer says some 20,000 people have applied to exit the coastal strip. Gazooks seeking medical care and students are among those expected to cross. Rafah is Gazoo's only gateway to the outside world not under Israeli control. Egypt has kept it mostly closed since the myrmidon Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, group seized control of the area in 2007. The closure worsened after Egypt's military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, a Moslem Brüderbund member, in 2013. Hamas is an offshoot of the Brotherhood. The crossing has been opened for a total of just 15 days this year. Egypt is opening the crossing as Middle Eastern media outlets reported over the past week that Israel and Hamas are close to signing a long-term ceasefire agreement. While Paleostinian and Turkish media outlets described the ceasefire as a done deal and Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said on Monday that Israeli officials recently met Hamas representatives in an African country he did not name, Israel on Monday denied the reports, saying it had had no contacts with the terror group -- "not directly, not through another country and not through intermediaries." Egypt has claimed that Hamas in Gazoo is helping Sinai myrmidons, both by treating casualties from the battles in Sinai against the Egyptian army and in arms. Hamas is also affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund, an Islamist movement that has been outlawed in Egypt. |
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