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Topic: blockade of Gaza

March 16, 2013
7:52 am

A Palestinian worker inside a smuggling tunnel, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip February, 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza tunnel owners upset with Egyptian security measures

From the web Army working around the clock to destroy underground smuggling shafts after court rules to shut them all down, Xinhua reports

March 7, 2013
2:12 pm

Cars transferred to Rafah through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip, 2010 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘Too many’ cars in Gaza

Official says import stopped due to oversupply

By Aaron Kalman

February 27, 2013
10:22 am

A Gaza smuggling tunnel. (Illustrative photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egyptian court orders Gaza tunnels destroyed

Porous border a threat to Egypt’s security and destabilizes the Sinai Peninsula, security official says

By Gabe Fisher

February 24, 2013
8:11 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on November 14, 2012. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Netanyahu ‘rejected Barak’s Turkey apology proposal’

Defense minister willing to take political fallout from an apology since he’s leaving politics, Haaretz reports

By Michal Shmulovich

February 23, 2013
9:45 pm

National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash 90)

Israel fails in new effort to mend ties with Turkey

Netanyahu’s security adviser held talks with Ankara’s Foreign Ministry director in Rome three weeks ago, to no avail

By Times of Israel staff

February 22, 2013
6:07 pm

Navy vessels escort the Mavi Marmara to the Ashdod port on May 31, 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Turkish media: Israel mulling apology for flotilla raid

Partial apology for ‘operational errors’ may have been discussed in secret talks between Jerusalem and Ankara

February 19, 2013
2:06 pm

A truck carrying goods from smuggling tunnels near the Egypt-Gaza border. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egypt set to send security delegation to Israel

Talks expected to focus on Hamas truce, Gaza border

By Gabe Fisher

February 18, 2013
5:56 pm

A Turkish F-16. (photo credit: CC BY Ronnie Macdonald, Flickr)

Israel supplying advanced weaponry to Turkey

Military deal, the fulfillment of an order that was halted after the Mavi Marmara incident, is first of its kind since 2010

By Michal Shmulovich

February 15, 2013
10:20 pm

In this image provided by the Egyptian President, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, left, meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012 (photo credit: AP)

Israel and Hamas said to hold indirect talks in Cairo

Senior Israeli officials negotiate easing of Gaza blockade with Islamist group’s officials, working through Egyptian intermediaries

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 14, 2013
4:23 pm

A Palestinian man works at the entrance of a destroyed smuggling tunnel along the Egypt Gaza border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on November 27, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Hamas to close smuggling tunnels, fearing collapses

Several people reportedly killed in Gaza Strip underground passages in the wake of massive storm

By Asher Zeiger

December 31, 2012
5:28 pm

The Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Gaza Strip,in 2011 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Following Egypt, Israel allows building supplies into Gaza

IDF says shipments to continue if border stays quiet; Cairo to allow in 4,000 tons of equipment a day

December 26, 2012
9:58 pm

Workers on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the Gaza Strip, December 2011 (photo credit Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel to allow construction supplies into Gaza

New policy comes in wake of Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that ended Operation Pillar of Defense

By Philip Podolsky

December 17, 2012
9:56 am

The Mavi Marmara being tugged out of Haifa harbor long after the raid (photo credit: Herzl Shapira/Flash 90)

Turkey investigating at least five local Jews it claims aided IDF in Mavi Marmara affair

Representative of Turkish immigrants accuses Ankara of using Jewish community as leverage against Israel

By Asher Zeiger

December 12, 2012
11:01 am

A Palestinian man works at the entrance of a destroyed smuggling tunnel along the Egypt Gaza border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on November 27, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Gazan-Egyptian smuggling tunnels on the rebound

Furious work under way to rebuilt underground network damaged by Israeli airstrikes during Operation Pillar of Defense

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

December 2, 2012
11:48 am

A Palestinian man works inside a smuggling tunnel that connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on November 24, 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Tunnels between Gaza and Egypt are back in business in a big way

From the web Washington Post: Over 140 smuggling tunnels were destroyed in the recent Israel-Hamas fighting, but within minutes of the ceasefire announcement diggers were called back to work

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