Joy As Egypt Opens Gaza Border Crossing

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From Sky News

Palestinians are delighted. Egypt's opening of the Rafah crossing, its border with the Gaza Strip, is literally the opening of the prison doors on the enclave after a four-year sentence.

The move has created deep unease in Israel.

More than 1.4 million people have relied on food aid handouts from the UN, limited supplies through Israel, and goods smuggled under the crossing to survive an Israeli blockade which was imposed when Hamas drove the Palestinian Authority from power in Gaza in 2007. The blockade was largely a reprisal for attacks on neighbouring Israeli towns by Hamas, and other Islamist groups, using home-made rockets.

The siege had been condemned in the UN, by the International Committee of the Red Cross and by the European Union.

Human rights groups argued that it was a massive example of collective punishment.

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PB

[tabatha]

1. Arab Spring hurrah!

[malaise]

2. And so am I

Bravo Egypt!!

[Taverner]

3. Now, maybe someone can get something besides K-Rations