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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Gazans holding hunger strike to protest closure of Rafah
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleResidents of the Gaza Strip are holding a hunger strike in a tent near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the south of the Gaza Strip, in light of its continued closure by Egyptian authorities, Ynet reports.
Among the participants are students who live in the Strip but study in other countries, as well as sick people who are waiting to leave the Strip to receive medical care outside the Gaza Strip.
A spokesperson for the protesters says some 15,000 residents are waiting to leave the Strip for different reasons. The crossing was recently opened for three days, but Egyptian authorities only allowed movement into the Gaza Strip and not out of it.
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