Posts Tagged: Egypt Gaza border
Hamas Continues to Reject Disarmament as Fragile US-Backed Gaza Peace Plan Faces Hurdles
As the US-backed Gaza peace plan falters amid mutual accusations of ceasefire violations, Hamas continues to refuse to disarm in accordance with the agreement, insisting...
How Cairo Is Failing the Palestinians
Egypt recently hosted top US and Israeli officials for Israel-Hamas ceasefire discussions. But nine months into a war that Hamas launched, Egypt has often exacerbated...
How Israel Can Ensure Security in Post-War Gaza
JNS.org - Israel’s calculated and legitimate response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre and years of rocket fire on Israel’s civilian population is advancing systematically, leading...
Egypt Opens Gaza Border for First Time Since Coronavirus Outbreak
JNS.org - Egypt opened its border crossing with Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since March, when it was closed in order to curb...
Egypt’s Sisi Orders Gaza Border Opened for Ramadan
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ordered on Thursday that the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip be opened for the whole of the Muslim...
Egypt Begins Work on 2nd Stage of Sinai-Gaza Security Buffer Zone
JNS.org - Egypt has started work on the second stage of a buffer zone between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip for the...
Egypt to Double Gaza Buffer Zone After Discovery of Longer Smuggling Tunnels
JNS.org - The Egyptian army has announced plans to double its security buffer zone along the Gaza border to 1 kilometer (about six-tenths of...
Now the World Fiddles as Gaza Cries
Once more, Gaza's border is in flames. Civilians are being evicted from their homes, a curfew has been imposed, and a crossing that enables Gazans to...
Rocket Launched From Gaza Strikes Israel Over Weekend, Egypt Creating Buffer Zone
Israeli early warning detection systems picked up a rocket launch from Gaza on Friday night. Originally the rocket was believed to have fallen short on...
Egypt Cracking Down on Gaza Tunnels Following Deadly Terror Attack
JNS.org- Egypt has launched a new operation to crack down on Gaza smuggling tunnels in the wake of last week's deadly terror attack that left...
Egypt Tells Hamas it Will Hold Terror Group Accountable for Border Incidents
JNS.org - Egypt's military told the Hamas that it would hold the Palestinian terror group responsible for any incidents along the Gaza border. According...
In Gaza, Everybody Needs a Little… Smuggled KFC?
A Palestinian smuggling company is now offering Gazans the taste of Colonel Sanders's KFC secret recipe. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the al-Yamama company in...
Egypt Searching for Hamas Members Who Entered Country Illegally
Egypt Independent - The Interior Ministry is searching for 500 Palestinian citizens who are allegedly Hamas members, and who are accused of illegally entering the...
Egypt Floods Gaza Tunnels to Shut Them Down
Wall Street Journal - Egyptian forces flooded smuggling tunnels under the border with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down,...
