Mar. 10, 2015 18:37
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- Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing for two days – REUTERS
- Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing for two days – REUTERS
- Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing for two days – REUTERS
- Palestinians look out a bus window as they wait to cross into Egypt at the Rafah crossing – REUTERS
- A Palestinian woman presents her passport at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip – REUTERS
- A Palestinian girl sits on a suitcase as she waits with her family for a travel permit to cross into Egypt, at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, March 10, 2015. Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing on Monday for two days, officials said. Rafah is the only major crossing between impoverished Gaza, home to 1.8 million Palestinians, and the outside world that does not border Israel, which blockades the strip and allows passage mainly on humanitarian grounds. Egypt shut the crossing in October last year after Islamist militants in Egypt’s adjacent Sinai region killed members of its security forces. Since then, it opened the crossing partially and on a few occasions to allow thousands of Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA – Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)