GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian policemen went on a rampage over the killing of a colleague and seized the Gaza-Egypt border crossing for several hours Friday, forcing European monitors to flee in the latest sign of growing mayhem in the coastal strip. A British aid worker and her parents, meanwhile, were freed late Friday, two days after gunmen seized the family in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian mediator Kamal Sharafi said, without giving any details of where they were released or who kidnapped them.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Divided by a twist of history 26 years ago, this remote town straddling the Gaza-Egypt border has been reunited in just as haphazard a fashion. After the towering border wall slicing through Rafah was toppled earlier this week, long-separated relatives, friends and even former soccer buddies just had to walk a few yards to embrace and reminisce.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An explosion ripped apart an Israeli armored personnel carrier Wednesday on the Gaza-Egypt border, and Arabic-language TV stations broadcasting in Beirut said six soldiers were killed. The military said the vehicle was patrolling an Israeli- controlled road on the border when the bomb went off. The road runs along the Palestinian refugee camp of Rafah, scene of almost daily battles. Israel repeatedly targets Rafah, trying to destroy weapons smuggling tunnels.
JERUSALEM - Iran said Tuesday it would send a blockade-busting ship carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists to Gaza, fueling concern in Israel, where commandos were training for another possible confrontation at sea. Israel warned archenemy Iran to drop the plan. The Iranian announcement came days after Israel eased its three-year-old blockade of Gaza under international pressure following its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last month.
RAFAH CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel on Thursday closed the vital Gaza-Egypt border crossing just days before completing its military pullout from the coastal strip. Palestinians derided the move as a unilateral Israeli action that blocks their main gateway to the outside world. But the Israelis said its purpose was just the opposite: to give time to build a new terminal that will increase freedom of movement.
JERUSALEM - The European Union is ready to send 50 to 70 inspectors to the Gaza-Egypt border by Nov. 25, the target date for opening the crossing to Palestinian traffic, the EU's Mideast envoy said Wednesday, a day after the United States brokered a hard- fought deal on Gaza crossings. The European team, which will be headed by an Italian police general, has the crucial task of monitoring the Rafah crossing to allay Israeli concerns that militant leaders or advanced weapons will slip into Gaza, while training the Palestinians to run a professional border terminal.
JERUSALEM Israel has agreed in principle to evacuate a road along the Gaza-Egypt border that has been a major flashpoint of violence in recent years, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Friday after a Palestinian official warned that continued Israeli military patrols there would invite attacks. Israeli officials said in the past that soldiers would need to remain in the Philadelphi corridor after the planned Gaza Strip pullout this summer to prevent weapons smuggling, but a new spirit of cooperation in the region following last month's election of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian leader could make a pullback more palatable.
RAFAH TERMINAL, Gaza Strip - Palestinians took control of a border for the first time Friday with the festive opening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The opening marked a milestone on the Palestinians' rocky path to independence and a rare moment of joy for fenced-in Gazans.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian who had to delay graduate school in Malaysia and an elderly man forced to put off eye surgery in Egypt are among thousands anxiously trying to get out of Gaza now that the blockaded territory's gateway to the world has opened just a little. A Hamas-run passenger terminal on the Gaza side of the border was packed Tuesday with hundreds of Gazans trying to get clearance just to approach the crossing into Egypt. It was a chaotic scene, with stressed passengers arguing with overwhelmed Hamas border officials.
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has agreed in principle to evacuate a road along the Gaza-Egypt border that has been a major flashpoint of violence in recent years, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Friday after a Palestinian official warned that continued Israeli military patrols there would invite attacks. Israeli officials said in the past that soldiers would need to remain in the Philadelphi corridor after the planned Gaza Strip pullout this summer to prevent weapons smuggling, but a new spirit of cooperation in the region following last month's election of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian leader could make a pullback more palatable.
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