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Outraged by kidnapping, Egyptian police block Gaza crossing
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travelers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the...
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A Palestinian cleans a tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian cleans a tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.
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Enraged by kidnapping, Egyptian police block Gaza border
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travelers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the...
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World Briefing | Middle East: Angry Egyptian Police Close Gaza Crossing
Egyptian police officers blocked the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen, witnesses said.
nytimes.com (1 month and 1 day ago)
Egyptian bride, Gaza groom meet in ‘tunnel of love’
This love knows no boundaries. An Egyptian bride had to pass through an underground tunnel in her billowing white wedding dress on Thursday to tie the knot with her Palestinian fiance in Gaza. 17-year-old Manal Abu Shanar had been living in the Egyptian city of Rafah, located right next to Egypt’s border with Palestine.
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Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap
RAFAH, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian security official says policemen at the country's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip have closed the border on their own initiative to protest the abduction of their colleagues.
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Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap
RAFAH, Egypt (AP) - An Egyptian security official says policemen at the country's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip have closed the border on their own initiative to protest the abduction of their colleagues.
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Angry Egyptian policemen close crossing with Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) - Egyptian policemen blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of Egyptian security forces in the Sinai, witnesses and sources said. Locals said police had placed barbed wire across the entrance to the border and closed the gates with chains, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence....
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Hundreds Of Palestinians Stranded After Egypt Blocks Gaza Border
CAIRO, May 18 (Reuters) - Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again on Saturday, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day...
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Egyptian police block Israel border crossing in fury at kidnapping: sources
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel on Sunday, security sources said. Police have been blocking another border post, the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, since Friday to press the government of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi,...
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