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Defiant Hamas bulldozes Rafah crossing wider
2008-02-02 13:06:00 By Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Hamas used a bulldozer to widen a breach in the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday so trucks could pass out of the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory despite Egypt's efforts to seal the crossing, witnesses said. An armed Hamas militant clung on to the outside of the yellow bulldozer's cab as the driver went about his work, and a number of other armed men close by provided additional cover. Local Palestinian residents and the waiting truck drivers cheered "crush the barrier" and shouted out "Hamas" as the bulldozer cleared a path wide enough to allow trucks to pass in either direction. The truck drivers then hurried back to their vehicles to cross the border in the fading afternoon light while Egyptian forces, who earlier this week closed two other crossings and narrowed the third, backed away and watched from a distance. The development came as a second day of talks between Egypt and Hamas leader Khaled Mesh...
By: B4U India
The Language of Numbers : The Gazans in Rafah
2008-01-25 12:58:00 OK here are very interesting numbers the press and the UN published yesterday regarding the situation in Gaza and Rafah The Population of Gaza is 1.5 million people . 700,000 from the 1.5 million have crossed the borders to Egypt till now. 12 Million L.E the Gazans spent in Rafah and in Al-Arish in the last 24 hours The greedy merchants of Rafah and Al-Arish tripled the prices of goods !! Still the Gazans are paying. The Chalets and rooms in Rafah were all booked by the Gazans that the Egyptian and foreign reporters had to sleep in their cars in the last 48 hours. Ismail Hania order for a bounce to the employees so they go to Egypt and buy supplies. Every thing in the two cities Rafah and Gaza was being bought , everything you can imagine from cloths to sheep to food even the potato ships and candy , everything you can imagine it. The Way to Cairo was secured yesterday so they will stop any advance to Cairo. Egypt has started to re-control the borders "I highly doubt it...
Border Fence Folly at Rafah, Gaza
2008-01-25 03:06:00 Wednesday’s breach of Israeli-built concrete and steel “border fencing” by Hamas militants in Rafah, Gaza, with tens of thousands of Palestinians now streaming into Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies they haven’t had access to in months, demonstrates once again the futility of walling people in or walling people out. Desperate people do desperate things, as we theoretically learned from the Berlin Wall debacle. Masked Palestinian gunmen simply blew holes into the Gaza-Egypt border fence on Wednesday, and that was that.
By: pajamadeen
Wedding bells to ring after fall of Rafah wall
2008-01-23 12:21:00 By Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - While other Palestinians lugged food and fuel from Egypt into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Omran Lubbab took advantage of the fall of Gaza's Rafah wall to bring his future bride home. "No more delays," said Lubbab, a 34-year-old Gaza cameraman, vowing to marry fiance Heba al-Qadi in two weeks' time. Lubbab was reunited with Qadi, a Palestinian who lives on the Egyptian side of the divided town of Rafah, after stepping through one of the gaps Hamas fighters blew in the border wall dividing the town. "We have been engaged for two years but our wedding has been delayed because of the closure of the border crossing," said Qadi, who carried two suitcases filled with new dresses into the Gaza Strip to begin her new life. Israel and Egypt have largely kept the Rafah passage sealed since Hamas Islamists violently took over the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in June. In a d...
By: B4U India
Gaza - Rafah : Des palestiniens forcent le point de passage blessant des me
2008-01-22 16:12:00 Des douzaines de Palestiniens ont forcé le point de passage de Rafah entre la bande de Gaza et l'Egypte après s'être heurtés aux forces égyptiennes de sécurité mardi, a rapporté la télévision satellitaire pan-arabe al-Jazira. On pouvait entendre des coups de feu alors que des centaines de manifestants palestiniens forçaient le point de passage de Rafah et que les forces égyptiennes rétorquaient avec des canons à eau depuis l'autre côté de la frontière, blessant plusieurs manifestants, selon al-Jazira.
RAFAH TODAY
2007-06-27 20:22:00 Israeli F-16s, Helicopters, and Tanks Further Drive Up the Death Toll, Casualties, and Numbers of Psychologically Wounded In Gaza
By: Current Era Blog
Gunfire at Rafah border crossing kills one
2007-04-28 07:52:00 GAZA, April 27: At least one person was killed and two were injured Friday in a shootout between gunmen and Palestinian forces at the Gaza Strip's Rafah border crossing.
By: newkerala.com
Rafah loses sister city bid in Washington
2007-04-19 09:21:00 OLYMPIA, Wash., April 18: The city council in Olympia, Wash., rejected a bid to adopt the Palestinian city of Rafah as a sister city.
By: newkerala.com
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