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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.

Hamas defies Mubarak’s efforts to reseal Rafah border

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From the Daily News Egypt:

Hamas hauled away metal spikes Egyptian soldiers placed at sections of the Gaza-Egypt border Friday, defying Egyptian attempts to reseal the breached frontier and curb the influx of Gazans.
Hamas blew open the border wall on Jan. 23, ending a seven-month blockade of the Gaza Strip that began after the Islamic group violently wrested control of the territory. Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been moving in and out of Egyptian border towns since, and in the meantime, Hamas bulldozers have pried open new gaps and blocked Egyptian efforts to narrow existing ones.
Early Friday, Egyptian troops poured cement and laid down metal spikes around various breaches to try to choke off the flow of vehicles through gaps in the 12-kilometer-long border. They also sent dozens of riot police to the area.
The Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said his group would not allow the border to be resealed.
”The Palestinian people have many options,” Haniyeh was quoted as telling the pro-Hamas daily Palestine in an interview published Friday. He did not elaborate.
Shortly after, members of Hamas dragged away metal spikes that had been placed at the main breach. Egyptian soldiers, who have been avoiding confrontation with Hamas, removed the remaining obstacles there. Witnesses also reported that a Hamas bulldozer shoved aside spikes at a gap about 100 meters to the east.

Nora Younis was at the borders, she texted saying:

Hamas: people of palestine will not go back to cage. We broke the hand cuffs and will break the siege and open all crossings starting With rafah.