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  1. Stuck in limbo between Egypt and Gaza

    latest bid for a temporary residency permit in Egypt. So I called the Mugamma, the vast 1940s building in ... Egypt to accompany my wife, Um Munir, who is being treated for a serious medical condition. As I phoned ... the press center, I was in a taxi preparing to leave Egypt and return home to Gaza but I decided to ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  2. Egypt must end enforced disappearance of Palestinians

    friends of four young Palestinians abducted in Egypt in August 2015 and believed still to be detained by ... abducted after entering Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula via Rafah crossing. Egyptian authorities have not released ... Egypt’s interior minister Magdy Abd al-Ghaffar on 13 April, Human Rights Watch said Egypt is required by ...

    Charlotte Silver - 06/27/2017 - 11:18

  3. Egypt's revolution inspires Gaza's youth

    revolution underway in Egypt is being closely watched by Gaza’s youth who see it as a source of empowerment ... solidarity with our neighbors in Egypt. We attempt to absorb every minute event so as to carry it through the ... 1956 Tripartite Aggression on Egypt, the 1967 Israel-Arab war, the 1968 Battle of Karamah, the 1973 ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  4. Border impasse arises again

    Palestinians marooned on Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip. A new security arrangement between Cairo, Tel Aviv ... since mid-June. “Israel has succeeded in replacing the Egypt-Gaza Rafah border crossing with a crossing under ... historically served as the sole transit point between Egypt and Gaza, was sealed 9 June, five days before Hamas ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  5. Activists preparing for "third intifada"

    Following the February ouster of Egypt’s longstanding President Hosni Mubarak, calls have been circulating ... in Egypt and throughout the region for a “Third Intifada” to begin 15 May. “Unlike the first two ... Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. This was later scaled down, however, to the staging of demonstrations ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 12/01/2012 - 08:15

  6. In Gaza, Mubarak's name easier to erase than his legacy

    Egypt’s siege on Gaza carry pictures denouncing former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, March 2010. ... although the new government in Egypt shows signs of relenting. There has been some easing of restrictions ... Hamas government in Gaza nurtures of better relations with the new Egypt. Many in Gaza believe that ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  7. Egypt begins pumping gas to Israel despite Gaza siege

    Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani The Electronic Intifada 29 February 2008 While Egypt ... Nassar/ MaanImages) CAIRO, 29 February (IPS)- On Monday, Egypt began pumping natural gas to Israel in ... agreement with this rapacious entity Israel,” Essam al-Arian, a leading member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  8. American culpability in Morsi's demise

    images For many Americans, the criminally negligent death of Egypt’s first freely elected president last ... culpability in Egypt’s failed democratic experiment was the culmination of decades of foreign policy. For more ... than half a century, the US government has squandered some $70 billion in mostly military aid to Egypt ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 07/30/2019 - 19:03 - 2 comments

  9. The revolution continues after Mubarak's fall

    which grew to thousands: “Long Live Egypt!,” “The people overthrew the regime!,” “Who’s next?,” ... military government confirmed in its fourth statement Egypt’s adherence to “all international and ... regional treaties.” But the treaty is not really the issue. Even if democratic Egypt maintains the treaty, the treaty ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  10. Egypt quietly lets in 230 patients from Gaza

    Egypt has allowed over 200 Palestinian patients from the Gaza Strip to make their way into Egypt via the ... and caused many injuries, Egypt allowed some of the wounded to enter its territory through Rafah. ... continuing between Israel, Egypt, Hamas and Fatah over a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian President ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  11. Border politics slows aid to Gaza

    Egypt has made it across the border into Gaza,” Hatem al-Bulk, journalist and political activist, told ... border crossing.” Al-Arish is located some 40 kilometers west of the border in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. ... Strip via Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Nazif said that over this period “Rafah was open on ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  12. Pressure mounts on Egypt to deliver results

    stabilizing the ceasefire and other key related issues. But now, more than two months later, Egypt’s active ... mediations will be one key topic discussed. Meanwhile, inside Egypt, socioeconomic unrest is rising steadily ... and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, a close ally of Hamas, still forms the main base of opposition to ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  13. Frustrations rise as Rafah crossing closed again

    movement between Egypt and Gaza have found the border gates at the Rafah crossing closed. Egyptian ... controlled by Israel. Egypt announced the permanent reopening of this crossing last week, after it was ... Council Elections. The closure of the Rafah border had been part of siege policy by Israel and Egypt aimed ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  14. Rights groups: Rafah border crossing must be opened

    after being bussed from Egypt via Israel, a Palestinian family flees as an Israeli tank moving into ... position, 30 July 2007. Several hundred of the more than 5,000 Palestinians stranded for weeks in Egypt ... Palestinian Authority, the European Union, and Egypt, to immediately open Gaza’s borders to passenger traffic, ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  15. Closure of tunnels deprives Gaza of $230 million per month, says government

    flooded by the Egyptian army, under the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 10 ... September 2013. Eyad Al Baba APA images GAZA CITY (IPS)- The border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip used to ... Gaza and Sinai in Egypt, have fallen silent. Things came to a grinding halt after the Egyptian army ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  16. Gaza man "kidnapped" by Israel in Sinai, says family

    Egypt’s 3 July coup has highlighted the network of collaborators and agents working with Israel in the ... peninsula. Wael Abu Rida crossed the Rafah border from Gaza into Egypt on 6 June with his family, including ... barrier wall erected by Israel. “This was the fourth time he had gone to Egypt for treatment for his son,” ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  17. Cairo remains dependent on US aid, says scholar of Egyptian foreign policy

    attitudes of many Arab regimes — particularly Egypt — towards Israel. While some Palestinians and their ... example, the Cairo authorities launched an operation against the tunnels linking Gaza and Egypt, flooding ... them with sewage. A new book — Representing Israel in Modern Egypt: Ideas, Intellectuals and Foreign ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  18. Cairo changes tack on Gaza

    Mahmoud Abbas meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, 26 February 2007. (POOL / PPO ... position, reiterating the need for peaceful dialogue between Hamas and its US-backed rival Fatah. “Egypt ... a stone’s throw from Egypt,” the new political dynamic constituted “a danger to Egypt’s national security.” ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  19. Renewed Egyptian ceasfire attempts undermined by Israel

    operations in the Gaza Strip early this month, Egypt has stepped up efforts aimed at brokering a ceasefire ... between Palestinian resistance groups and Tel Aviv. “Egypt is talking to representatives from [Palestinian ... an opening of Egypt’s border with Gaza and possible prisoner exchanges.” He added, however, that such ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  20. Global mobilization in support of Egyptian uprising

    Rally for People of Egypt,” Labor Beat). New York City New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger reported that more ... support anti-government protests in Egypt,” 29 January 2011). Protesters held signs that read “Egyptian ... a tear gas canister [[used against protesters in Egypt]] stamped “Made in the USA ” (“ Advocates stage ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 23:54

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