Palestinians protest at Rafah, call on Egypt to open crossing

Palestinians are protesting at the Rafah border crossing during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to open the crossing, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Egypt has kept the crossing largely shut since Cairo’s Islamist president Mohammed Morsi was toppled by the army in 2013. Since then, it opened the crossing partially on a few occasions to allow Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip, border officials say.

Palestinians protest at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 22, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
Palestinians protest at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 22, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

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