8-15-2015 Egypt to open Rafah crossing for 4 days Ma'an News Agency

 

Egyptian authorities on Saturday announced that they will open the Rafah crossing into and out of the Gaza Strip for four days starting Sunday [as requested by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas honoring an] appeal from the Hamas-run Ministry of the Interior in Gaza, who asked that humanitarian cases be permitted to exit the besieged coastal enclave…

Iyad al-Buzm, a spokesperson for the ministry, said in a statement last week that conditions in Gaza represent a "humanitarian catastrophe," with up to 20,000 humanitarian cases and thousands of other Palestinians waiting to leave the territory…

 

…The Egyptian government has in the past accused Hamas of assisting the insurgency, although Hamas denies the allegations.

Egypt has done little to alleviate Israel's eight-year blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has severely restricted imports and exports into the territory and denied Gazans freedom of movement.

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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