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Mixed feelings define Mubarak’s children in Egypt (AP)

June 15th, 2010

AP - To the millions of Egyptians who have known no other president, Hosni Mubarak is the “Father of the Nation.” But as with many fathers, they also have deeply…

Egypt to keep open border with impoverished Gaza (AP)

June 7th, 2010

A mourner touches the body of Palestinian militant Ibrahim Al-Wahidi, 25, at a Gaza City mosque, wrapped in a Fatah group flag, prior to his funeral procession, Monday, June 7, 2010. Al-Wahidi along with 3 other comrades in diver suits from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades — the remnants of a violent offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction — were killed by Israeli forces in the waters off Gaza , before dawn Monday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - After three years of cooperating in the Israeli blockade of Gaza, Egypt said Monday that it will leave its border with the Palestinian territory open indefinitely for humanitarian…

Egypt: Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open (AP)

June 7th, 2010

A Palestinian pupil walks past sacks of flour, some part of humanitarian aid by United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), and USAID, but now offered for sale by a vendor outside a food store in Shatie refugee camp, in Gaza City, Sunday June 6, 2010. An Israeli official said Sunday that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is moving ahead with plans for an binternational/b commission to investigate Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. The push for an international inquiry puts Israel under further pressure to explain how its attempt to stop the aid ship from breaching a tight blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza turned deadly. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - An Egyptian security official declared the blockade of Gaza a failure Monday and said his country will keep its border with the Palestinian territory open indefinitely.


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Israel, Egypt ease Gaza blockade after deadly raid (AP)

June 1st, 2010

Hamas security officers patrol on Gaza's seaport, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Palestinians in Gaza declared a general strike and a day of wrath following Israel's deadly naval raid on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - Israel and Egypt signaled a temporary easing of the Gaza Strip blockade Tuesday following harsh international condemnation of the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla en route to…

Egypt lifts its side of Gaza blockade for aid (AP)

June 1st, 2010

Two ultra-Orthodox Jews look at Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara off the coast of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on May 31, 2010 after the Israeli navy raided a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza. Israel has detained 480 pro-Palestinian activists captured in its deadly commando raid on the aid flotilla and will expel 48 others, public radio reported Tuesday.(AFP/David Buimovitch)AP - An Egyptian official says the government is temporarily lifting its blockade of the Gaza Strip to allow aid into the area a day after Israel raided an international flotilla…

Egypt rejects claims that it gassed Gaza tunnels (AP)

April 29th, 2010

Palestinian mourners gather around the body of smuggling-tunnel worker Osama Ali Abu Jamous, 20, during his funeral at a mosque in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 29, 2010. Palestinian officials in Gaza said four Palestinians were killed Wednesday when Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel, a claim that was denied by Egyptian security officials. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)AP - An Egyptian intelligence official on Thursday denied allegations leveled by Hamas that Egypt pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip, killing…

Hamas: Egypt forces gas, kill 4 tunnel smugglers (AP)

April 29th, 2010

The bodies of Palestinian tunnel workers Muhammad Ali Abu Jamous, age 25, top left, Osama Abu Jamous Jamaan, age 20, bottom left, Nadal Jeda, age 25, bottom right, and Khaled Ramlawi, age 20, in the morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Palestinian officials in Gaza say Egyptian forces have pumped gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel, killing four Palestinians. A Hamas security official in charge of the tunnel area says the Egyptians filled the passage with gas Wednesday. Gaza doctor Hamdan Abu Latifa said the smugglers suffocated. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP - Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.


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Hamas says Egypt kills 4 tunnel smugglers with gas (AP)

April 28th, 2010

The bodies of Palestinian tunnel workers Muhammad Ali Abu Jamous, age 25, top left, Osama Abu Jamous Jamaan, age 20, bottom left, Nadal Jeda, age 25, bottom right, and Khaled Ramlawi, age 20, in the morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Palestinian officials in Gaza say Egyptian forces have pumped gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel, killing four Palestinians. A Hamas security official in charge of the tunnel area says the Egyptians filled the passage with gas Wednesday. Gaza doctor Hamdan Abu Latifa said the smugglers suffocated. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP - Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.


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Israel tells its citizens to get out of Sinai now (AP)

April 13th, 2010

AP - Israel has issued an “urgent” warning to its citizens to leave Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula immediately.

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Egypt cancels unveiling of restored synagogue (AP)

March 14th, 2010

AP - Egypt has canceled the inauguration of a restored synagogue citing the Israeli oppression of Muslims in the occupied territories as well as excesses by Jews during an earlier…