From AP…
Sleeping in the sand and running out of money, thousands of Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt’s desert for more than a month since the border with Hamas-controlled Gaza has been closed.
Conditions in the frontier town were increasingly desperate yesterday, with one woman saying she was forced to sell her wedding ring to feed her family. Others complained authorities weren’t even providing blankets or other basic necessities.
The Rafah border terminal has been closed since June 9, the start of the final round of bloody factional fighting between Fatah and Hamas that led to the Islamic group’s takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Egypt said this week it had ruled out opening the border anytime soon, a move intended to put pressure on Hamas to resolve its conflict with Fatah.