Israel demands that Egypt restore order at Gaza-Egypt border

[Tom Joad]

The head of the security-political task force at the Defense Ministry, Amos Gilad, demanded over the weekend that Egypt restore order in Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians have been crossing into Egypt from the Gaza border town through a ruptured barrier since Wednesday.

At the request of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Gilad spoke to Egyptian officials and demanded that the Egyptian authorities take action to prevent the unsupervised crossing of Gazans back and forth between the two territories.

The Egyptian authorities have so far been unsuccessful in resealing the border.

Israel's defense establishment decided over the weekend to step up pressure on Hamas, the Islamist group controlling the Gaza Strip, and continue a total blockade of all crossings between Israel and the coastal territory.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948051.html

[angstlessk]

1. are these people Isreali prisoners? if not it is between Egypt and Gaza

as to any boarder between the two...

[TomClash]

2. Why should Egypt listen to Gilad? nt

[sam sarrha]

4. well, you cant starve people if they keep feed'n em..

[TomClash]

5. And isn't that a shame? nt

[pingzing58]

3. Israel wants all these lawbreakers back in Gaza so they can starve them to death! No Palestinian

State, No Peace!

[Scurrilous]

6. Egyptian forces renew effort to seal breached Gaza frontier

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"Egyptian forces moved to close their breached border with the Gaza Strip by stopping vehicle traffic Sunday and further tightening their security cordon around the small frontier town of Rafah in effort to contain Palestinians crossing freely into Egypt for the fifth day in a row.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Sunday Egypt would take steps to control its border with the Gaza Strip as soon as possible. A Foreign Ministry statement provided no further details.

Egyptian forces blocked one of the gaps carved into the border wall with piles of sand and border police carrying electric cattle prods at other openings stopped cars with Palestinian plates from entering Egypt and Egyptians cars from crossing into Gaza. Pedestrians, however, continued to move back and forth freely.

Egyptian border guards were now authorized to return fire if attacked, said a security official speaking on customary condition of anonymity on the Egyptian side of Rafah."

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[Vegasaurus]

7. I hope the world looks on and sees

that Egypt doesn't want to deal with the issues of the Gazans either, especially after they perpetrated violence on the Egyptian guards.