Egypt tries to contain chaotic border
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Egyptian forces left their breached border with the Gaza Strip open for a fifth day Sunday but tightened a security cordon around the border town of Rafah to keep Palestinians inside Egypt confined to a small zone.
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Egypt wants to send troops into the demilitarised buffer zone along the border with Israel. The move is in response to last week&#39;s triple suicide bombing targeting Israeli tourists in Sinai.
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A smattering of Hamas-affiliated security forces, many of them bearded and dressed in blue camouflage uniforms, fanned out on both sides of the breached Gaza-Egypt border Sunday to jointly police the crossing with Egyptian guards.
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Egyptian police guard the compound of the Taba Hilton hotel, which was carbombed Thursday, in Taba, Egypt, on the border with the southern tip of Israel, Sunday, Oct, 10, 2004.
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Hamas-backed militants driving bulldozers knocked down more fortifications Friday along the Gaza-Egypt border Â a brazen challenge to Egyptian riot police, who abandoned their positions after attempting to reseal the frontier using human chains, dogs and water cannons.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday through a border wall destroyed by militants, and stocked up on food and fuel in short supply because of an Israeli blockade.
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak  makes a fence-mending visit to Egypt on Wednesday after  Israel's foreign minister accused Cairo of jeopardizing  regional stability by failing to stop arms smuggling to the  Gaza Strip.
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Egyptian police sealed Gaza's border with huge metal spikes and shipping containers Sunday, restoring a tight blockade after a breach that allowed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to cross freely for 12 days.
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A tunnel used by Palestinian weapons smugglers along the Egyptian border collapsed today, burying several people inside. Israeli military sources said the tunnel collapsed while an unknown number of Palestinians
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian security forces greatly reduced their presence along the breached Gaza border late on Friday after Palestinian militants defied their attempts to seal the gaps by bulldozing a new opening.
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Egyptians living near the breached border with Gaza were growing increasingly frustrated with the influx of hundreds of thousands Palestinians over the past week, warning that chaos was brewing and demanding the crisis be resolved.
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Egyptian officials began trying to control the masses of Palestinians flooding from the Gaza Strip Thursday, stopping some from moving deeper into Egypt but not attempting to reseal the breached border
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt began closing its breached border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from crossing into Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
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QURSAYA ISLAND, Egypt  - The Egyptian flag flaps in the breeze between two army tents, an unwelcome symbol of state power in a confrontation between the government and the independent-minded inhabitants of an island in the Nile.
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Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel.
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Egyptian security forces closed the border with the Gaza Strip yesterday nearly two weeks after the wall was first breached
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Thousands of Palestinians are stuck in two Egyptian towns by the Gaza border, unable to return home amid an Israeli assault on the coastal strip, an Egyptian security official said Saturday.