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Arab League chief: Gaza siege must be broken

Arab League chief Amr Moussa said during his first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip on Sunday that a four-year siege on the Gaza Strip must be broken.

Amr Mousa: Israeli blockade must be lifted

Amr Mousa, Arab League's Secretary General ascertained that the arrogant siege on Gaza must be immediately broken

Angered activists sit-in at Rafah crossing in protest

An overnight sit in was staged by over 350 Egyptian activists on the Rafah border crossing in an attempt to break the siege on the Gazans

Opening Rafah border helps ease tension in Middle East

Egypt’s decision to open the border with Gaza at the Rafah border crossing serves to ease tension in the Middle East after a crisis in which Israel attacked a flotilla,

Egyptian authorities refuse entry of construction material via Rafah terminal

The Egyptian authorities have turned down a request by the Arab doctors union (ADU) to send construction and other relief materials to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border terminal.

Court order to annul Egyptian citizenship to Israeli marriages

An Egyptian High Administrative court has issued an order to consider annulling the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israelis in the case of threats to Egypt 's national security

Khudari calls on Egypt to keep the Rafah border crossing open

Head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege (PCAS) MP Jamal al-Khudari, thanked Egypt for opening the Rafah border crossing for the past six days allowing about 6000 passengers to

Egyptian officer: The Palestinian detainees subjected to exceptional torture

An Egyptian state security officer said, on condition of anonymity, that the Palestinian prisoners in Egyptian jails are exposed to unprecedented special torture and are living in harsher incarceration conditions

Berlin declaration endorses right of resistance, return

More than 10,000 Palestinians residing in Europe issued the Berlin Declaration at conclusion of their two-day conference in the German capital on Sunday evening asserting their right to return to

Mubarak’s war on Islamists

Amnesty International on Thursday called for a retrial of 26 defendants, criticizing the use of an emergency court.