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September 20th, 2015 
Awake Goy Days of Palestine, Cairo –Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said he supported Egypt’s crackdown on lifeline of Gaza Strip, Egyptian newspaper has reported.
“We have supported all the precautionary measures taken by the Egyptian authorities to close the tunnels and stop the trafficking of arms and the passage of people between Gaza and the Sinai,” Abbas said in an interview with Egyptian magazine Al-Ahram Al-Arabi.
“We will continue to support any measure protecting Egypt from danger,” Abbas said, referring to the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, which were used as a lifeline for the Palestinian coastal enclave due to the Israeli, Egyptian and international backed siege.
Since the 2013 removal of the first ever Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi from power by the Egyptian army, the country’s new authorities have accused Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood of conspiring with Hamas.
The Egyptian military has stepped up the destruction of tunnels from Gaza that it says are used by the Palestinian movement to smuggle arms, food and money. However, they have never provided any proof about arms’ smuggling.
The army says it has destroyed more than 1,600 such tunnels since Morsi was overthrown.
Egypt has also begun setting up a buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip, which will see hundreds of homes demolished, in order to prevent fighter infiltration and arms smuggling.
Hamas, the ruler of Gaza, and Abbas’ Fatah movement, which dominates the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, agreed on a national unity government last year but reconciliation efforts have repeatedly hit stumbling blocks.
Cairo suspects Hamas fighters of helping fighters carry out attacks against Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
The Cairo-Hamas relationship has been witnessing rise of tension after the abduction of four Hamas members, who were in their way for treatment in Turkey, in Sinai last month.
The Palestinians were kidnapped while under the protection of Egyptian security personnel; however, Egypt denies it knew any information about them.
Source Article from http://www.daysofpalestine.com/news/abbas-supports-egypt-flooding-gaza-borders/
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