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much longer border with Israel.
The sole legal crossing point on that border, at Rafah, years ago
became the only way that most Gaza Palestinians could ever hope to
travel ... between the Strip and the outside world. (Goods, by contrast,
are not allowed through Rafah. Under the 1994 Paris Agreement
between Israel and the PLO, all goods going into ... Gaza must
go through crossings that go to Israel.) Cairo's control over Rafah has
given it a huge ability to put pressure on Gaza's 1.6 million people
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Sophie Claudet with Saleh Jadallah
Sep 9, 2012 -- Gaza City — When Egypt reopened the Rafah crossing
border with Gaza late last month, Palestinians hailed the move as a
possible ... former Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak. "Hamas appreciates the Egyptian decision to completely reopen
the Rafah crossing, and considers this step as an evidence for the good
intention of the Egyptian ... Gaza," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zohri said. On Aug. 25,
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Egypt said the Rafah terminal would stay open from 9 M. to 6 .., 6
days a week except Fridays
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Sophie Claudet with Saleh Jadallah
Sep 9, 2012 -- Gaza City — When Egypt reopened the Rafah
crossing border with Gaza late last month, Palestinians hailed
the move as a possible ... former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "Hamas
appreciates the Egyptian decision to completely reopen the
Rafah crossing, and considers this step as an evidence for the
good intention of the Egyptian ... Gaza," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zohri
said. On Aug. 25, Egypt said the Rafah terminal would stay
open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., 6 days a week except Fridays
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speculation,
however, were the attack's unexpected but important
political effects.
What makes the Rafah incident more interesting than
previous attacks in Sinai -- of which there have been
many ... various political
parties, groups, and factions would try to leverage the
violence in Rafah to their political advantage. Even
the April 6 Movement, Kefaya, and other less well-
known groups ... last until circumstances force the Brothers and the
officers to seek accommodation.
But the Rafah killings may well have tipped the scales.
As weak as Morsy's position seemed
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speculation,
however, were the attack's unexpected but important political effects.
What makes the Rafah incident more interesting than previous attacks in
Sinai -- of which there have been many ... various political parties, groups, and
factions would try to leverage the violence in Rafah to their political
advantage. Even the April 6 Movement, Kefaya, and other less well-
known groups ... last until circumstances force the Brothers
and the officers to seek accommodation.
But the Rafah killings may well have tipped the scales. As weak as
Morsy's position seemed
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from each other; Palestinians and Egyptians are one," said
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Fathy, a Bedouin from Rafah whose home overlooks the Gaza skyline.
A lack of in-depth demographic studies on Sinai ... activist who ran for parliament under Mubarak, told Ahram
Online from her home in Rafah.
"I am more Egyptian than other Egyptians living in Cairo or elsewhere, as
I reside ... smuggling network, and following the recent killing of 16 Egyptian
soldiers and officers in Rafah, for example, the committee ordered all
tunnel owners to shut down their smuggling operations
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marry from each other; Palestinians and Egyptians are
one," said Fathy, a Bedouin from Rafah whose home
overlooks the Gaza skyline.
A lack of in-depth demographic studies on Sinai ... activist who ran
for parliament under Mubarak, told Ahram Online
from her home in Rafah.
"I am more Egyptian than other Egyptians living in Cairo
or elsewhere, as I reside ... smuggling
network, and following the recent killing of 16
Egyptian soldiers and officers in Rafah, for example,
the committee ordered all tunnel owners to shut down
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speculation,
however, were the attack's unexpected but important
political effects.
What makes the Rafah incident more interesting than
previous attacks in Sinai -- of which there have been
many ... various political
parties, groups, and factions would try to leverage the
violence in Rafah to their political advantage. Even
the April 6 Movement, Kefaya, and other less well-
known groups ... last until circumstances force the Brothers and the
officers to seek accommodation.
But the Rafah killings may well have tipped the scales.
As weak as Morsy's position seemed
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marry from each other; Palestinians and Egyptians are
one," said Fathy, a Bedouin from Rafah whose home
overlooks the Gaza skyline.
A lack of in-depth demographic studies on Sinai ... activist who ran
for parliament under Mubarak, told Ahram Online
from her home in Rafah.
"I am more Egyptian than other Egyptians living in Cairo
or elsewhere, as I reside ... smuggling
network, and following the recent killing of 16
Egyptian soldiers and officers in Rafah, for example,
the committee ordered all tunnel owners to shut down
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cheap commodities Gazans had come to rely on.
Egypt kept the Rafah crossing point closed for days — stranding
thousands of students, business people, medical patients,
foreigners and Gazans ... worse: Israeli
bombings and assassinations, exiles from Arab capitals, months-
long closures of the Rafah crossing during Mr. Mubarak's reign.
"The region is in labor," Mr. Hamad said ... Ferris wheel
at a Hamas-run amusement park continued to turn. But at the
Rafah crossing, hundreds of desperate would-be travelers waited
in vain for days. The gleaming
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Palestinian attacks
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crowded neighborhood, set off huge secondary explosions.
Rafah: Israel soldiers bombarded the Rafah area after three soldiers were killed by Palestinian
militants who emerged
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honor guard as they cross from
Egypt into Gaza through the Rafah passenger terminal
there. Gaza's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh of
Hamas, is to greet the emir at Rafah ... allow raw
materials for Qatar's Gaza projects to be sent through
the Rafah crossing, Gaza officials said. Haniyeh's
office said the Egyptian president approved the
arrangement, which could
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present Hamas
with a ceasefire plan which foresees Egypt
committing itself to opening its Rafah
border crossing with Gaza to goods. For the
time being, it is only open ... take Hamas to task on the
Sinai question in return for opening the
Rafah border crossing. The Sinai Peninsula
is home to extremists, some of whom have
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Prime Minister Hisham Qandil briefly
entered Gaza at the Rafah border, an
unprecedented visit at a time of conflict.
He toured Shifa Hospital in Gaza
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complement and
perfect the Israeli siege, not only by refusing to open the Rafah
border crossing with Gaza but also by building a steel and
concrete wall along the border ... Israeli blockade.
Then came the Ramadan terrorist attack on an Egyptian garrison
near the Rafah border crossing on 5 August, which killed 16
Egyptian soldiers as they were preparing ... from Egypt under
Morsi: first, unfettered movement in both directions of the
border at Rafah and, second, a serious Egyptian effort to link
Egyptian commitment to the Camp David peace
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Cairo.
Lawlessness
A smuggler works inside a tunnel beneath the Egypt-Gaza border in Rafah
that has been flooded by Egyptian forces. (Ibraheem Abu
Mustafa/Courtesy Reuters)
Black markets and transnational ... economic minister for the
Hamas government. Goods exchanged underground circumvented the
restrictive, slow-moving Rafah border crossing and the steel barrier Egypt
erected in 2009, providing income for Sinai ... Sinai and
encouraging its development.
After Islamist militants killed sixteen Egyptian soldiers near the Rafah
border crossing in August 2012, Morsi purged the military's leadership. He
replaced Field Marshal
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honor guard as they cross from Egypt into Gaza through the Rafah
passenger terminal there. Gaza's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh of
Hamas, is to greet the emir at Rafah ... allow raw materials for Qatar's
Gaza projects to be sent through the Rafah crossing, Gaza officials said.
Haniyeh's office said the Egyptian president approved the arrangement,
which could
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Islamist
forces presumably base their political legitimacy. Also, in the immediate aftermath of the Rafah attack, President
Mohamed Mursi came under fire for his "ill-considered" decision to establish closer ... helped create a climate conducive to
terrorism which encouraged those who carried out the Rafah attack and could inspire similar attacks in the
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future, and all the more
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jihadists at midnight on August 7th,
with the airport and the road to Rafah, on the border with Gaza, coming
under fire. Egyptian forces chased the attackers to el-Touma ... than Gazans or Hamas. Although Egypt has
yet fully to open the crossing at Rafah, Israel has already reopened its one
nearby at Kerem Shalom, for trade
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addition
to destroying tunnels, Egypt has also severely limited Gazans' ability to
exit at Rafah, Gaza's main access to the outside world.
Israel responded by easing restrictions on people ... percent more
entries through Erez, but that compensated for only 6.5 percent of the
Rafah decrease, according to Gisha, an Israeli NGO focusing on
Palestinian freedom of movement.
Many Gazans
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