Egypt begins closing breached Gaza border: witnesses
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian forces began closing the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, stemming the flow of Palestinians across the frontier breached by Hamas Islamists last month, witnesses said.
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Palestinian gunmen blew up a section of  the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Wednesday,  witnesses said.
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Gazans pour into Egypt after gunmen destroy most of the wall dividing the town of Rafah.
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Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt on Thursday in a ferocious gunbattle with Fatah-allied border guards after Israel blocked the Hamas prime minister from crossing with tens of millions of dollars in aid.
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On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blown up by militants Â puncturing a gaping hole in Israel's airtight closure of the Gaza Strip and giving a boost to Hamas.
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Egypt will close the breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not try to prevent it, a senior Hamas leader said after holding talks with Egyptian officials.
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Israel would like to sever its  remaining connections with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip  after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt,  a top Israeli defence official said on Thursday.
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Egypt stops Palestinians vehicles from crossing the Gaza border, as talks begin in Cairo to resolve the crisis.
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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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Israeli air strikes killed four Palestinian militants on Friday in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, as Egyptian forces began closing the severed border, curbing the stream of Gazans breaching the Israeli blockade.
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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 poured out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt early Wednesday after masked gunmen blew dozens of holes in the border wall
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Two Palestinian militants stormed on Sunday night an Israeli army post on the borders between southern Gaza town of Rafah and Egypt and clashed with Israeli soldiers,Palestinian witnesses said.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Palestinians streamed home through the breaches in Gaza's border with Egypt on Sunday as Egyptian authorities choked off supplies to the area and moved to restore control.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Egyptian forces fired water cannons at Palestinians trying to force their way across the Gaza-Egypt border on Friday and warned over loudspeakers the border would close at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), witnesses said.
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Hundreds of Palestinians pour into Egypt from Gaza after masked militants blow several holes in a border wall.
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Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on Saturday to open its shuttered border crossing with the Gaza Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their Gaza homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.