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Egypt steps up its war on Gaza smuggling tunnels

RAFAH: Hidden in the shadows of a Rafah residential zone, two Egyptian border police and their attack dogs stand guard at the entrance to a smuggling tunnel to the besieged Gaza Strip.The discovery of the tunnel, only...

Egypt: Kinship With Fatah Hampers Mediation

Following renewed fighting between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, Egypt has stepped up calls for dialogue and reconciliation. But critics say Cairo's partiality to Fatah -- which is backed, like the Egyptian...

Underground lifelines

Digging tunnels between Gaza and Egypt is the only option for Gazans starved of medicine, fuel and basic supplies, writes Saleh Al-Naami It was only when the taxi driver made a sarcastic remark that he realised that his...

Egypt finds explosives cache near Gaza border

EL-ARISH: Egyptian police have found a large cache of explosives close to the Gaza border which they believe Palestinians intended to smuggle into the territory, a security official said on Thursday.The discovery was made on...

Official: Hamas, Egypt ties in deadlock

Months of ties and talks between Hamas and Egypt ended in a deadlock, an official from the Islamic movement said on Thursday. "There is a crisis between Hamas and Egypt now and it is subject to widen if Egypt did not take steps...

Amnesty urges Egypt to end abuse against African illegal migrants

Cairo - Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday called on Egypt to end abuses against migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa who are often killed, imprisoned or forcibly deported when caught trying to cross the country's borders into...

Official: Sudanese killed near Egypt-Israel border

An Egyptian medical official says border guards have fatally shot a Sudanese migrant who was trying to cross illegally into Israel. Imad Kharboush, head of the Northern Sinai ambulance department, says the body of the...

Smugglers kill Egypt policeman near Israel

An Egyptian border policeman was shot dead by smugglers on Monday as he tried to stop a group of African migrants from crossing the border illegally into Israel, a security official said. Mohammed Ahmed Hassanein, 21, was shot...

Egypt Tells Hamas: Release Shalit or Rafah Border Stays Closed

By Amihai Zippor ([ISRAEL] IHC News Analysis, 19 August 2008) Egypt warned Hamas that until it makes progress towards freeing abducted IDF solder Gilad Shalit, the Rafah border crossing, Gaza’s main terminal to the outside...

Can International Activists on two Small Boats Break the Siege of Gaza?

After many delays forty unarmed peace and justice activists from 17 countries are preparing to sail from Cyprus to Gaza to break the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory. They pose no threat but a moral challenge to...