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| Rafah crossing closed for 100 days now: Gaza ministry |
| 2015-04-19 |
| [AA.TR] The Rafah crossing on the border between the Gazoo Strip and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has been closed for 100 days now, the Gazoo Interior Ministry said Saturday. It added that this has been the longest closure of the crossing since 2009, calling on Egyptian authorities to reopen the border point to alleviate the suffering of the residents of the Gazoo Strip. Around 60,000 Gazoo residents have registered to get out of the blockaded territory from the crossing for medical and other needs since July of 2013, according to Gazoo's border crossings authority. Since October of last year, Egyptian authorities have been working to create a buffer zone in the border area between Sinai and the Gazoo Strip. The zone is created with the aim of curbing Death Eater activities in the parched Egyptian peninsula, according to Egyptian authorities. With Gazoo's other crossing points on its border with Israel closed by Israeli authorities, the closure of the Rafah crossing -- Gazoo's only window to the outside world at present -- adds more suffering to the coastal territory's 1.9 million residents. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 And now, when there are no tunnels, Hamas derives most of its funds by tariffs on the goods going through the checkpoint. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-19 11:10 |
| #1 suffer some more, ya blood-thirsty beetches |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-19 10:17 |