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December 21st, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) : The Rafah border crossing between Egypt’s North Sinai province and Palestine’s Gaza Strip will be opened on Sunday and Monday to enable stranded Palestinians to travel. Egyptian authorities are working at both unilateral, bilateral and multilateral initiatives to normalize the permanent opening of the border crossing to break the siege against Palestine’s Gaza Strip without compromising Egypt’s and Palestine’s national security.
Rafah border crossing. Photo, courtesy of Youm7
The Palestinian Embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo announced the opening of the Rafah border crossing on Sunday and Monday, reports The Cairo Post (TCP). The newspaper quotes the Palestinian Embassy as stating:
“Egyptian authorities decided to reopen the Rafah border crossing Sunday and Monday on both sides for the return of stranded travelers, humanitarian cases and aid to the Gaza Strip.”
The statement reportedly also stressed that the decision to reopen the border crossing came after intensified discussions between Palestinian and Egyptian authorities. The Cairo Post quotes Maher Abu Sabha, the Director of the Palestinian Border’s Authority, as saying that stranded medical patients who received treatment in Egypt will be allowed to cross the border on Sunday while stranded students will cross on Monday.
Family stuck at the Rafah border crossing. (nsnbc files).
The Egyptian government is currently taking unilateral, bilateral and multilateral initiatives to normalize the opening of the Rafah border crossing as soon as possible.
The administration of President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi is establishing a one kilometer security parameter along the Egyptian side of the border, requiring the resettlement and the building of an entire new city for Egyptians who were living within the one kilometer security zone.
The Egyptian and Palestinian governments entered an agreement on the training of Palestinian security forces.
Although the Al-Sisi administration wishes to normalize the permanent opening of the border crossing, it requests that forces who control the Palestinian side of the border are under the control of the Palestinian government and not under control of any one Palestinian faction, regardless of which one of them.
Egypt has faced an armed insurgency, especially in the North Sinai province and along the Libyan border since the onset of the so-called Arab Spring in 2011. The insurgency increased significantly after the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood associated government of Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Elements of Hamas have been playing a role in this insurgency, particularly in the North Sinai province.
Senior Hamas legislator Yahia Mousa “Hamas will pay a heavy price… “
In July 2013, senior Hamas legislator Yahia Mousa warned members of certain factions within Hamas that Hamas, as an Islamist movement, supports the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, but does not have the right to interfere in internal Egyptian affairs. Mousa stressed that instead, Hamas must act to stop the bloodshed between the supporters of the Brotherhood and their opponents.
Mousa also warned that Hamas would pay a heavy price for its interference into internal Egyptian affairs. Many analysts stressed that it is not as much Hamas, as it is the Palestinian population, regardless of their political affiliation, that is paying a heavy price.
Both the involvement of certain elements of Hamas in the armed insurgency and the ongoing insurgency waged by the foreign-backed, ISIS affiliated AnsarBayt al-Maqdis (ABM) in the North Sinai province complicated Egypt’s initiatives aimed at a permanent, normalized opening of the Palestinian – Egyptian border.
Another complicating factor is that the Palestinian Unity Government, formed earlier this year, has problems with asserting control over the Palestinian side of the border.
Egypt is also participating in multilateral initiatives, including indirect talks between the Palestinian and Egyptian government, as well as international initiatives aimed at ending Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories in the West Bank.
In November 2014, the Al-Sisi administration announced that it would also be willing to consider the deployment of Egyptian troops to help secure a future Palestinian State once Israel has ended its illegal occupation.
F/AK – nsnbc 21.12.2014
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