Gazans head home as Egypt chokes off supplies
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Thousands of Palestinians streamed home through the breaches in Gaza's border with Egypt on Sunday after Egyptian authorities choked off supplies to the area and moved to restore control.
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JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians  sifted through the rubble of dozens of homes in a sprawling  refugee camp on Saturday after Israel ended its most powerful  assault in the Gaza Strip in four years of bloodshed.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has closed all border crossings into Gaza, cutting off food and humanitarian supplies to the coastal strip in a bid to pressure its Hamas rulers to stop a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli towns, defense officials said Friday.
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Thousands crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip to buy supplies that have been cut off during days of blockade by Israel.
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CAIRO, Jan. 2 -- Egypt opened its main crossing into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to allow more than 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims -- including at least one official of the armed Hamas movement -- to return to their homes there, outraging Israel in a growing dispute over border security.
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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 Hamas-controlled territory's borders, a move taken in response to Palestinian rocket attacks.
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Osama Hassan can finally buy what he needs to wed his fiancee now that Palestinian militants blasted down the Gaza border wall Wednesday, clearing the way for tens of thousands of locked-up Gazans to stock up in Egypt on basic supplies that are scarce or impossible to buy at home.
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Gazans pour into Egypt after gunmen destroy most of the wall dividing the town of Rafah.
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Trapped by Israeli tanks and Hamas gunmen, hundreds of terrified Palestinians holed up in a stench-filled concrete tunnel at a border crossing Tuesday, desperate to flee the Islamic militants now ruling the Gaza Strip.
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RAFAH, Gaza  - Palestinian militants blew up part of the wall between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt to stock up on food and fuel in short supply due to an Israeli blockade.
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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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While thousands of Palestinians flooded into Egypt to stock up on food, fuel and other staples after Islamist militants breached the border, one man bought a lion cub and a monkey to smuggle back home.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 25 -- Egyptian security forces deployed Friday with barbed wire, water cannon and tasers to close their country's breached border with Gaza, shutting down a two-day Palestinian exodus from Gaza after Palestinian fighters blew up the border wall.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 14--Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was stranded Thursday in the Egyptian Sinai after Israel barred him from entering the Gaza Strip with millions of dollars in cash, prompting gunmen from his Hamas movement to open fire on the border crossing in a show of force.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Egyptian troops pulled back overnight from the breached Gaza border after a security guard was shot in the foot, allowing thousands of Palestinians to stream across unhindered.
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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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Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of dozens of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes today - the aftermath of Israelâs 17-day military offensive, the deadliest in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.