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Topic: Egyptian-Gazan border

April 11, 2013
10:48 am

An Egyptian watchtower along the border on August 6, 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90)

Egypt nabs 4 men smuggling arms and blueprints into Gaza

Suspects planned to attack Egyptian military and police installations along Gazan border

By Gavriel Fiske and Stuart Winer

March 6, 2013
9:53 am

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

Gaza smugglers keep their heads above water

Egyptian military admits that its strategy of flooding tunnels beneath the border has not worked as well as expected

By Stuart Winer

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 21, 2013
12:51 pm

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)

To block Gaza tunnels, Egypt lets sewage flow

From the web NY Times: Cairo government determined to crack down on smuggling between Sinai and the Hamas-run enclave

January 20, 2013
9:52 am

Egyptian soldiers ride an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) along the border with Israel (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Egyptian security arrests 10 Gazan infiltrators

Cairo draws up list of Palestinians suspected of posing a security threat

December 31, 2012
8:19 pm

Bedouin in northern Sinai, October 2004 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Sinai tribes threaten civil disobedience over new regulations on border with Israel

Egypt’s defense minister bans Bedouins from working narrow strip of land as part of ongoing effort to thwart terrorism

By Elhanan Miller

December 29, 2012
4:47 pm

The Palestinian side of the Rafah border terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. (photo credit: Sarah El Deeb/AP)

Egypt transfers thousands of tons of building materials to Gaza

20 truckloads are expected to enter the coastal strip through the Rafah crossing

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 7, 2012
6:59 am

Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, left, and Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh wave during a news conference upon Mashaal's arrival in the Gaza Strip on December 7. (photo credit: AP/Suhaib Salem, Pool)

Hamas political chief pays first visit to Gaza, vows next trip will be to Jerusalem

Khaled Mashaal says he’ll do everything in his power to unite Fatah and Hamas; Israel says it has no control over who enters Strip from Egypt

By Yoel Goldman and AP

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

November 26, 2012
3:23 pm

Palestinian children take part in a protest at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza in the southern Gaza Strip on June 21, 2011. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Egyptians and Hamas hashing out deal to ease border restrictions

Gazan rulers want access to airport, seaport as part of ceasefire agreement with Israel

By Stuart Winer

August 14, 2012
11:14 am

In this Monday Aug. 6, 2012 file photograph, the Rafah border terminal between Egypt and Gaza, and the only gateway for Gaza's people, is closed and guarded by Egyptian border guards in Rafah, Egypt. (photo credit:AP/Ahmed Gomaa)

Egypt to temporarily reopen Gaza border crossing

Official says movement will be allowed both in and out of Hamas-controlled enclave ahead of upcoming Muslim festival

By AP and Times of Israel staff

August 7, 2012
6:06 pm

Gaza residents pray outside the Egyptian embassy in solidarity with Egypt following the attack (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Border attack means Egypt-Gaza honeymoon is over

Hamas condemned the Sunday assault in which 16 Egyptian troops were killed, offered to help investigate it, set up a symbolic mourning tent, and tried to pin blame on Israel. To no avail

By Elhanan Miller

August 7, 2012
11:06 am

A view of the smuggling tunnels area along Egypt-Gaza border (photo credit: AP /Hatem Moussa)

Following Sunday terror attack, Morsi slams door on Hamas

Gaza’s rulers had hoped the Muslim Brotherhood’s ascendance would ease border blockade

By Ibrahim Barzak

August 6, 2012
3:56 pm

A wounded Egyptian soldier lies in a hospital bed at Al-Arish hospital Sunday (photo credit: AP photo)

Egypt rues fatal unpreparedness for Sunday’s terror attack, as ex-MP charges Israeli collusion

Some social media commentators fume that Cairo officials dismissed Israel’s Sinai danger warnings

By Elhanan Miller and Times of Israel staff

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