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Updates from the Rafah crossing

Posted on By 3arabawy

Mubarak’s pigs are shipping travelers back and forth between the borders now in Central Security Forces trucks like detainees.. The following SMSs are from Nora who’s inside a CSF truck now…!

I.m cold! Palestinians were brought to border in central sec forces trucks. They’re being let into gaza. Its taking ages. I.m tired.
False hopes.. I.m freezing.. Some 3000 egyptians r cold & hungry here.. Rumor all will be taken in CSF cars then ma7dar tasalol
Now inside CSF car
In deep sorrow, goodbye Gaza! Believe it or not, it was more safe there…

UPDATE: Amr called in from Cairo to confirm Nora is currently held in a CSF truck, with around 40 Egyptians, mainly women and children. They were taken to school building in Rafah. There is a number of trucks in the school also with more detained travelers. The school has been taken over by the security services. There are scores of CSF soldiers in and around the school, armed with teargas canons.

UPDATE: Amr says:

Spoke with Nora again. 3 officers are taking the details of estimated 5,000 Egyptians returning from Gaza. She is out in Egyptian Rafah streets and should be heading back to Cairo.

Mubarak’s pigs open fire on Palestinians

Posted on By 3arabawy

From Al-Jazeera:

A Palestinian has been shot dead and five people wounded, including two Egyptian border guards, in an exchange of fire along the Gaza-Egypt border, Palestinian medics and Egypt’s news agency Mena say.
The Palestinian sources on Monday named the dead man as Hamed al-Qadi, 40.
In addition to the three other Palestinians shot and wounded, 12 people were treated for tear-gas inhalation.
The injuries occurred after Egyptian police opened fire to disperse a protest by a crowd of angry Gazans, medics said.
Mena said two policemen were shot and wounded on Egypt’s side of the border, after witnesses had earlier reported three policemen were shot.
Thirteen more policemen were treated in hospital for injuries caused by stones, medics said.
The Associated Press news agency reported that the tensions erupted when Egyptian guards sealed the border hermetically, not even allowing Egyptians and Gazans who had found themselves on the wrong side of the border to return home.

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Nora Younis was at the crossing, she sent out the following SMSs:

Clashes at border. Egypt sec guards throwing stones at palestinian side from behind metal blocks. Pal kids throwing back. Hamas guards sent all stranded people backwards from border. Chances it will be forced open. Hamas radio called people to rally gaza streets now for opening of crossings
Egypt sec throwing tear has bombs at palestinians. Pal kids pick it up and throw it back. Wind is in palestinians favor. All smoke is going to egypt.
Egypt is intensifying army presence on top of buildings. Tension rising. Pals keep sending tens of tear gas bombs back. It will be forced open.

Howeida released

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From Al-Jazeera:

Howayda Taha, a documentary producer for Al Jazeera, has been released after being held for 15 hours by Egyptian police.
Taha was arrested on Monday for allegedly filming without a proper licence, her lawyer and police said.
She is already appealing an earlier jail sentence after reporting on alleged torture in police stations.
Taha was working on a film about farm laborers in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo when police detained her early on Monday and questioned her late into the evening.
Ahmad Helmi, her lawyer, said on Tuesday she had all the necessary papers issued to her from the Egyptian press center.
Police confiscated her tapes and sent them to be inspected by the department of artistic inspection, Helmi said.
It was not clear if any charges would be raised.
“She is under a constant police watch, they want to ban her from working in Egypt,” he said.
Police said four other people were arrested with her, including three crew members and an Egyptian human-rights activist.
Taha was sentenced in absentia in May to six months in jail and fined $5,600 for working on a documentary highlighting torture in police stations.
She has appealed against the sentence. The appeals court is due to deliver its ruling on February 11.