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AL-ARISH: An Egyptian security official says border guards have arrested 13 Georgian migrants trying to cross illegally into Israel. The official says the seven men and six women were caught in the deserted area of El-Madfouna on the Sinai Peninsula. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media. …
AL-ARISH: An Egyptian security official says a tunnel used for smuggling between Egypt and Gaza has collapsed and killed at least one Palestinian. The official says Sunday’s collapse occurred when the tunnel’s fragile sand ceiling fell under its own weight. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to …
RAFAH: A delegation from Hamas and Islamic Jihad met with Egyptian security officials Thursday to discuss a ceasefire proposal with Israel that was prepared by Egypt in consultation with the Israelis, officials from both sides said. Violence has flared in recent weeks as Israel has retaliated against Palestinians firing rockets from the Gaza Strip. Israel …
Al-ARISH: A smuggler s tunnel linking the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to Egypt collapsed on Friday, nearly suffocating four Palestinians and trapping another under rubble, Egyptian and Hamas officials said. The Palestinians were trying to hollow out a recently sealed tunnel, located some 10 meters below ground, when its vulnerable sandy ceiling crumbled under its own …
EL-ARISH: Egyptian police on Tuesday fatally shot a Sudanese woman and arrested a second one who was with an infant as they tried to cross into Israel, a security official said.The shooting took place a few kilometers south of the Rafah border crossing point when the slain Sudanese women from the war-torn Darfur refused to …
AL-ARISH: An underground tunnel collapsed early Wednesday near Egypt s border with the Gaza Strip, burying alive one smuggler and injuring another, a security official said. Palestinian smuggler Mohamed El-Bashiti and five others had nearly finished expanding the 600 meter tunnel from Gaza into Egypt, located 10 meters beneath the ground, when the ceiling gave …
AL-ARISH: Egyptian authorities shot and killed a Sudanese man trying to cross into Israel for work and detained eight other Africans early Monday, a security and hospital officials said. Border guards opened fire at a group of nine people south of the Rafah crossing point, killing Adam Othman Mohammed, 29, while he was trying to …
AL-ARISH: Egypt is working on a plan with the Palestinians to supply all the besieged Gaza Strip s electricity needs and wean off its reliance on Israel for power, an Egyptian energy official said Thursday. Under the plan, Egypt – which already supplies a small part of Gaza s electricity- would increase the number of …
AL-ARISH: A teenage Bedouin girl was fatally shot on Thursday in the Sinai Peninsula near Egypt’s border with Israel, an Egyptian security official and medics said. The girl, identified as 12-year-old Samah Nayyef Abu Garad, was hit in the head by a bullet, eyewitnesses and the security official said. It was not clear who was …
EL-ARISH: Egyptian security forces on Monday uncovered an explosives cache containing 100 km of TNT hidden in sacks near the country s volatile border with the Gaza Strip, a police officer said. The cache, found buried a few feet deep in the soil in a deserted area of the northern Sinai peninsula, came after police …
AL-ARISH: Egyptian border guards shot and killed an Eritrean woman and arrested her two young daughters Saturday after they tried to cross illegally into Israel, security and medical officials said. Mervat Mer Hatover, 37, and her daughters, ages 8 and 10, were among a group of Africans who paid hundreds of dollars to human traffickers …
EL-ARISH, Egypt: A top Hamas delegation crossed into Egypt Thursday and met with Egyptian officials wanting to make clear that no further breaches of its border with the Gaza Strip will be tolerated, a security official said. The Hamas delegation, led by Gaza strongman, Mahmoud Zahar came at the Egyptian request, after they received reports …
EL-ARISH: Egypt boosted troop security along the volatile border with Gaza on Friday, a security official said, following an alleged threat by Hamas that the group would stage kidnappings of Egyptian troops if its members arrested in the Sinai were not released. The remarks came amid stepped-up rhetoric by Egypt against Gaza s Hamas rulers, …
AL-ARISH: Egyptian border guards at the boundary with Gaza on Wednesday fatally shot two Africans, a man and a woman as they tried to illegally cross from Egypt into Hamas-controlled coastal strip, officials here said. The guards opened fire at a group of eight Africans at the southern part of the border wall at Rafah, …
AL-ARISH: Egyptian border guards shot dead an African man attempting to cross the border to Israel, security and medical officials said Saturday. The native of the Ivory Coast was trying to cross into Israel with two companions when he was discovered by police and ordered to stop. They opened fire when he refused to comply, …
RAFAH: An Egyptian lawmaker called for calm Friday as at least a thousand angry Bedouin attended the funeral of a man killed near the desert border with Israel. On Thursday, 40-year-old Hamdan Suleiman Attaya was shot dead outside his home in El-Dahniya village just 300 meters from the Israeli border. “We cannot risk creating an …
RAFAH: Egyptian police discovered a ton of explosives hidden in an underground cache on the border with the Gaza Strip during a search for smuggling tunnels, a security official said Thursday. The cache was discovered behind a school in the sparsely populated Ahrash region near the border town of Rafah, the official added on condition …
RAFAH: Egypt has uncovered 60 tunnels along its borders with the Gaza Strip and seized about 20 tons of explosives in the Sinai Peninsula over the past 10 months, said a security report obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday. The report, which provides details about tunnels, weapons smuggling and arrests of would-be suicide bombers, …
EL-ARISH: Border guards arrested six Eritrean refugees trying to cross illegally into Israel on Thursday, shooting one of the individuals in the process, security and medical officials said. The Eritreans were part of a larger group of about a dozen Africans, but the others managed to make it into Israel, said a security official, speaking …
AL-ARISH: Egyptian authorities detained eight Eritreans and two Sudanese early Wednesday in two separate incidents as they tried to make their way to Israel, a security official said. The Eritreans were caught trying to take a boat across the Suez Canal to the Sinai Peninsula, to reach the border with Israel in northern Sinai, the …
EL-ARISH, Egypt: A Turkish man shot by Egyptian border police as he tried to illegally cross into Israel died of his wounds Friday, a hospital official said. The Turkish national was attempting to cross into Israel on Thursday along with six members of his family when guards called on him to stop, according to security …
EL-ARISH, Egypt: Authorities seriously injured two Turkish teenagers when they shot at them as they tried to cross the Egyptian border into Israel on Monday, security and medical officials said. Police later arrested them, along with their father, the officials said. Three Sudanese refugees were also arrested Monday for allegedly trying to cross the border. …
RAFAH: Angry Bedouins on Wednesday hurled stones, destroyed a police checkpoint and set a police truck on fire in the third day of unrest near Egypt s border with Gaza, police and eyewitnesses said. The violence was sparked by an Egyptian plan to demolish houses along the country s porous boundary with the Gaza Strip …
Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt: Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew on Egypt s border town of Rafah Thursday following unconfirmed reports that Palestinian gunmen planned to blow up a border wall to allow thousands of Palestinians stranded on the Egyptian side to return home, a police official said. Thousands of police and security forces also were …
Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt: Egyptian border guards shot a Sudanese refugee and arrested two others early Wednesday as they tried to cross from Egypt into Israel, a police official said. Twenty-six other refugees were successful in the their attempt to illegally cross the border, the official said. The Israeli army, meanwhile, said 47 Africans crossed …
Associated Press EL ARISH: Four Israeli tourists and their Egyptian driver were injured Friday when their minibus overturned in the Sinai peninsula, police and hospital officials said. The minibus was driving from the resort of Taba on the Gulf of Aqaba to Cairo, said a police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he …
MARSA ALAM: Three foreigners and an Egyptian were missing Sunday after they went scuba diving in Red Sea, an Egyptian diving association said. A fifth diver who was with them was able to swim to shore despite strong winds and high waves. An Egyptian, three Russians and a Dutch man began scuba diving Saturday morning …
EL ARISH: Three Bedouins were arrested early Friday trying to smuggle nearly 200 crates of automatic weapons and ammunition from Egypt into Gaza, police said.Police seized the weapons on a truck in the village of Ballouza, some 100 km east of the Egypt-Gaza border. The smugglers were heading north to the village of Sheik Zuwayed, …
Associated Press RAFAH: More than 4,000 Palestinians are stuck in two towns near Egypt s border with Gaza, unable to return home amid an Israeli assault on the coastal strip, an Egyptian security official said Saturday. Brigadier Khairi Awwad, head of the Rafah city council, said more than 4,000 Palestinians were in staying in Rafah, …
Associated Press EL ARISH, Egypt: Egyptian police captured six Sudanese, including a one-year-old boy, who were trying to cross into Israel early Friday to seek asylum, a security official said. The six were arrested at dawn as they tried to get over the coil of barbed wire that marks the border in Egypt s northeast …