Egypt begins closing Gaza border, fueling tensions
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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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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - 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.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Egyptian troops stood by and let thousands of Palestinians stream out of Gaza on Saturday after failing to seal breaches blown in the border by Hamas militants defying an Israeli blockade.
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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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The Israeli defense minister has ordered troops to close border crossings that lead to and from the Gaza Strip, a spokesman said Friday
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Gaza's main power plant began shutting down on Sunday due to a fuel shortage caused by Israel's closure of the territory's borders in response to Palestinian rocket attacks.
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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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Egypt cuts off supplies to its border zone with Gaza to discourage Palestinians from pouring into the area.
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Egypt will close its breached border with Gaza on Sunday, and Hamas will not stand in the way, a Hamas leader said.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - A leading member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas entered Egypt from Gaza on Thursday to resume talks with the Egyptian government on arrangements at the border, a security source said.
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GAZA CITY, Feb. 3 -- Egyptian construction workers in blue hard hats rolled barbed wire across the last breaches of the Gaza Strip's border wall with Egypt on Sunday, reasserting Egyptian control of the frontier after Palestinian guerrillas used explosives and machinery to knock down the barrier.
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CAIRO, Jan. 2 -- Egypt opened the gates of its main crossing into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to allow thousands of Palestinian pilgrims to return home, outraging Israel in the two countries' growing dispute over border security.
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Tens of thousands of  Palestinians poured into Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday  after militants blew up a border wall, and stocked up on food  and fuel in short supply because of an Israeli blockade.
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Israel orders the closure of Gaza's border with Egypt to prevent Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya's return.
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The Gaza border crisis caused another sharp flap Thursday in Egyptian-Israeli relations, with Egypt angrily accusing Israel of trying to dump all responsibility for the troubled Gaza Strip in its lap.
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Hamas and Fatah security officials traded fire at Gaza's border with Egypt on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh passed through on his way to reconciliation talks between his Hamas movement and the rival Fatah group in Saudi Arabia, witnesses said.
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Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defence minister said on Thursday.