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February 16th, 2016 
Awake Goy Days of Palestine, Gaza Strip -Egyptian authorities have reclosed the Rafah Crossing after three days, allowed over than 2,400 Gazans travel, more than 1,000 to return home.
The Palestinian department of crossings in Gaza said in a statement that 2,439 travelers – patients, students and others – were able to leave the Gaza Strip in the last three days via the Rafah Crossing.
Also, 1,122 Palestinians, who had been stranded on the Egyptian side, were able to return to Gaza, the authority added.
Egyptian authorities prevented 334 Palestinians from crossing into the Egyptian side without providing reasons, the authority added.
Since the ouster of first-ever freely elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi in a 2013 military coup, Cairo has kept the border with the Gaza Strip closed almost all time.
According to data released by Palestinian interior ministry, throughout the course of last year, Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah Crossing for only 21 days and to limited traffic.
The long periods of closure at the crossing – which represents Gaza’s only point of access to the outside world not under Israeli control – have brought the coastal enclave’s roughly 1.9 million inhabitants to the verge of humanitarian catastrophe.
Source Article from http://www.daysofpalestine.com/news/egyptian-authorities-reclose-rafah-crossing/
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