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Topic: Rafah

May 19, 2013
5:41 am

Army trucks carry Egyptian military tanks in the northern Sinai Peninsula last year. (photo credit: AP/File)

Egypt orders large-scale operation to free abducted cops

Maneuver could mark largest military buildup in peninsula since last year as talks to release 7 security officers break down

By Joshua Davidovich

May 19, 2013
2:51 am

Hamas security forces stand guard at the closed gate of the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Enraged by kidnapping, Egypt police block Gaza border

From the web Reuters: Cops kept the crossing into Sinai shuttered for a second day Saturday in protest over the abduction of their colleagues

May 18, 2013
7:46 pm

A Palestinian man works inside a smuggling tunnel which connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, November 24, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza smuggling tunnel collapses, kills Palestinian

According to the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, 232 people have died in subterranean smuggling routes since 2007

By Times of Israel staff

March 28, 2013
4:30 am

In this Monday, March 18, 2013 photograph, Palestinian Nabila Qishta, 52, prepares bread in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, using flour donated by the UN (photocredit: AP/Diaa Hadid)

Cookbook showcases Gaza’s culinary delights

140-page book has sold 4,000 copies; Palestinian foodies describe heritage, resourcefulness in cooking specialty dishes

By Diaa Hadid

March 22, 2013
11:13 pm

6 children wounded in Gaza explosion

Witnesses claim they saw an object fall from the sky near a house in Rafah

By Times of Israel staff

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

February 11, 2013
3:06 pm

A Palestinian man works outside a smuggling tunnel which connects the Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on November 24, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egypt pumps water into smuggling tunnels from Gaza

Palestinian tunnel owners decry move, which endangers workers’ lives

By Elhanan Miller

February 6, 2013
11:31 am

Egyptian soldiers ride an armored personnel carrier (APC) along the border with Israel. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Egyptian soldiers kill migrant trying to enter Israel

Troops shoot 19-year-old Sudanese man who was attempting to illegally cross the border

January 7, 2013
1:52 pm

Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa, File)

Egypt says it foiled car bombing near Gaza border

Possible targets included Coptic church and an army camp, military says

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 9, 2012
4:42 am

A view of Naples harbor (photo credit: CC BY MegaZoi, Flickr)

Italian police capture arms cache based on Israeli intel

Rocket launcher reportedly bound for Egypt intercepted by undercover agents in Naples harbor

By Times of Israel staff

November 26, 2012
6:12 pm

Palestinians in a market in Rafah, Gaza Strip, sell fish smuggled through tunnels from the border between Egypt and Rafah on April 16, 2012 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Under the radar, Israel eases restrictions on Gaza

With little fanfare, Palestinian fishermen and farmers allowed closer to the border

By Elhanan Miller

November 25, 2012
2:45 am

Palestinians walk toward the Egyptian border crossing with Gaza at Rafah, August 2012 (photo credit: AP)

Explosion destroys part of Egyptian intelligence building in Rafah

Sinai peninsula has been a hotbed of global jihadi activity, including an attack that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in August

By Times of Israel staff

November 15, 2012
4:57 am

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

Egypt confirms rockets fired at border town came from Sinai

Cairo and Jerusalem to set up joint task force to determine circumstances of attack, Egyptian daily reports

By Joshua Davidovich

October 28, 2012
3:05 pm

Smoke rises from the Karmal Jabl neighborhood during clashes between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, October 25, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Narciso Contreras)

Syrian ceasefire crumbles, international envoy blamed

Iraq is mired in violence and political discord; another tunnel collapses in the Gaza Strip

By Elhanan Miller

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