Important News
- Cabinet condemns Israel’s resumption of land settlement process in Area “C”; reaffirms support for displaced families in Tulkarm
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- Israeli forces attack Palestinians with tear gas and stun grenades in Hebron, causing suffocation cases and fire to break out
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- Elderly sustains injury in colonists’ attack in southern West Bank
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- Prisoners' organizations: Escalating and systematic violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in April
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- Israeli colonists continue attacking Palestinians, their properties in Masafer Yatta
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- Palestinian national heritage committee calls on UNESCO to immediately intervene to stop Israeli violations at Sebastia archaeological site
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- PCBS: 77 years after Nakba, Palestinian population has increased nearly 10-fold
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- German Government alarmed by developments in Gaza
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- One killed, others injured in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza city
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- Cabinet holds meeting in Tulkarm; PM affirms government continues efforts to alleviate residents' suffering
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- Israeli forces continue to demolish homes in Nour Shams camp amid ongoing offensive
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- Armed colonists graze their sheep near Palestinian residents' homes south of Hebron
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- UN organizations: 2.1 million Gazans face starvation, as Israeli genocide continues
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Egyptian Official: Israel Threatens Denying Pilgrims' Access into Rafah Crossing by Force
GAZA, December 31, 2007, (WAFA)- An Egyptian official Mufeed Shehab said early Monday that Israel threatened to forcibly ban Gaza pilgrims, stuck in in al-Areesh city of Egypt, in case they tried to access through Rafah crossing.
He added that "Egypt has been conducting some calls with Israel and the European Union so as to settle the whole problem".
"Egypt does not want to let the Pilgrims access Rafah crossing from the Egyptian side as Israel will fiercely ban them by assault", he mede it clear.
