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Egypt breaks from US, Israel by brokering unity deal
fall of Egypt’s Mubarak regime — have altered the strategic balance, particularly as it pertains to the ... Palestinian legislative and presidential elections are held within one year. A statement issued by Egypt ... settlements on occupied West Bank land. Further complicating the situation, Israel and Egypt — with the PA’s ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Gaza-Egypt border in political limbo
Egyptian riot police face each other across the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in the divided ... after throngs of Palestinians flooded into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula from the Gaza Strip, the flashpoint ... a new Egypt-Palestinian security agreement regulating the border crossing at Rafah,” Abdel-Halim Kandil, ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Egypt remains complicit in Gaza siege
(IPS)- Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza ... activists aboard a ship bringing humanitarian aid to the besieged coastal enclave. Hitherto, Egypt had ... from al-Arish to the Egypt-Gaza border, where some 700 tons of medical supplies were allowed to pass ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Hopes for freedom of movement dashed, once again, in Gaza
election of Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi, expecting an end to movement restrictions at the Egypt ... -Gaza border. Majdi Fathi APA images Ever since the toppling of the Mubarak regime in Egypt, Palestinians in ... Rafah crossing with Egypt, their only gateway to the outside world. I know first-hand about the ...
Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Gazans stranded in Egypt as Rafah rumors swirl
The Electronic Intifada 24 August 2017 A Palestinian woman waits to cross over into Egypt at Rafah ... weeks suggest that the Gaza-Egypt border, closed with only rare exception for the past four years, may ... Palestinians from Gaza currently stranded in Egypt, separated from their families, seeing is believing. The ...
Anonymous - 10/19/2017 - 03:01
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Egypt blocks Gaza student from going to college in UK
medical treatment outside Gaza are among those affected by Egypt’s closure policy. Eyad Al Baba APA images ... Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt has left her stranded. Because of the uncertainty, Mohammed says ... Egypt to reopen the crossing. The United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Obama's aid cut to Egypt is a sham
to Egypt is a sham. Far from actually withdrawing significant US support for the Egyptian military ... hegemony. It also ensures that Egypt continues to help Israel to maintain the collective punishment of ... Gaza siege continue: Egypt is pressing hard against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, cutting off the flow of ...
Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 1 comment
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Under boycott pressure, Orange tries to distance itself from Israeli operation
mounting pressure from a boycott called against its Egyptian subsidiary Mobinil. But BDS Egypt, the ... customers in Egypt, is 99 percent owned by Orange, making Egypt one of the France-based multinational’s ... Paris venue where Orange held its annual shareholders meeting. Pressure mounts in Egypt It took only ...
Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 3 comments
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Egyptian kinship with Fatah hampers mediation
to cross the main border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, May 2008. (Wissam Nassar/ ... MaanImages) CAIRO (IPS)- Following renewed fighting between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, Egypt ... secretary-general of Egypt’s frozen Labor Party, told IPS. “For that reason, any new Egyptian attempt to mediate the ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Aid rots outside Gaza
Egypt (IPS)- Hundreds of thousands of tons of aid intended for the Gaza Strip is piling up in cities ... across Egypt’s North Sinai region, despite recent calls from the United Nations to ease aid flow ... runways across Egypt’s North Sinai governorate. Egypt shares a 14-kilometer border with Gaza that has been ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Groups warn of humanitarian consequences of Gaza closure
again flowing through the tunnels from Egypt into Gaza after supplies were cut for a week due to the ... fears of a fuel shortage. And yet the humanitarian implications of an ongoing crisis in Egypt for Gaza ... tunnel trade. Since Egypt and Israel sealed their borders with Gaza in June 2007 when Hamas took power amidst ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Egyptian government, not people, recognize Israel
so-called peace between Egypt and Israel continues to lack popular approval,” Ahmed Thabet, professor of ... however, scandalized the wider Arab world. In 1979, in the wake of Camp David, Egypt’s membership of the ... Arab League was suspended, and the League’s headquarters relocated from Cairo to Tunis. Egypt’s League ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Political obfuscation and stranded Palestinians in Egypt
stipulated by Israel, the PA and Egypt. But already there is speculation as to the effectiveness, and indeed ... Selim, an Egyptian expert in military and strategic affairs. Selim admitted that Egypt is unable to ... Egypt-Gaza border began 9 June when Israel imposed the closure of the Rafah terminal, ostensibly the Gaza ...
matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Palestinian refugees in Egypt face discrimination, say experts
(Asmaa Waguih/ IRIN) CAIRO — Palestinian refugees in Egypt continue to face major obstacles, including ... the American University in Cairo. There are currently some 70,000 Palestinians in Egypt who- unlike ... the nascent Israeli occupation. Rather, Palestinians in Egypt fall under the mandate of UN refugee ...
arjan - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Sisi destroys thousands of Egyptian homes in anti-Palestinian campaign
Egypt has destroyed thousands of its own citizens’ homes in order to further isolate Gaza. Abed Rahim ... the pretext, never backed up with evidence, that insurgents and weapons have been entering Egypt from ... Gaza. Egypt’s foreign ministry has responded to the Human Rights Watch report with assertions that it is ...
Ali Abunimah - 12/24/2020 - 20:28 - 2 comments
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Palestine and the Egyptian revolution: a view from Gaza
the border wall between Gaza and Egypt after it was destroyed in January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/ ... bones of those who trespass against Egypt’s national security.” He was referring to the starving ... on the Egypt-Gaza border and flooded the streets of the Egyptian town of al-Arish to buy food, milk ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Ramy Shaath released
speaks during the launch of BDS Egypt at a conference in Cairo on 20 April 2015. Hossam el-Hamalawy ... Flickr After more than 30 months in prison, Egypt released the Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath on ... since. He is the co-founder of BDS Egypt, which mounts campaigns against Egyptian normalization with ...
Tamara Nassar - 01/10/2022 - 11:59
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Love and light at the end of Gaza’s tunnels
refused permission for her to travel to Gaza. Mai travelled to Jordan, flew from there to Egypt, drove ... Egypt, says he is seeing an increasing number of brides coming in from Egypt, and grooms being smuggled ... Egyptian bride on way to her groom in Gaza. It’s cheaper to find a bride in Egypt than in Gaza. Adel ...
Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
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Egyptians say “do not reconcile”
2023, an Egyptian police conscript shot and killed three Israeli soldiers along the border between Egypt ... Judging by their official commentary in the aftermath of the shootings, Israel and Egypt were seemingly in ... 5 June. Egypt’s limited release of information on the incident was perhaps due to a fear among its ...
Anonymous - 07/10/2023 - 14:00
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Obama envoy Wisner works for Egypt military, business lobbyists
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, on 14 September 2010. (State Department photo) ... lived in Egypt, took the delegation to Congress on 29 April. Kingsbury, Livingston and Miner were ... lobbyists employed by the government of Egypt, helping them to open doors to senior officers in the US ...
Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13
