PIC
[ 27/12/2009 - 10:13 AM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian Al-Shaab newspaper reported Saturday that the Egyptian authorities embarked on building an electronic fence around the city of Rafah in Egypt in order to reduce the entry of goods into the besieged Gaza Strip.
The newspaper said that this security fence would make the Egyptian town of Rafah isolated from the Sinai Peninsula, adding that the Egyptian authorities would establish three gates inside this fence.
In a related context, hundreds of Palestinian children on Saturday participated in a sit-in at the Rafah border crossing in protest at the steel wall being built by Egypt on its borders with Gaza.
The children carried banners condemning Egypt for tightening the siege on Gaza children and depriving them of living a normal life.
One of the children read out a letter appealing to the Egyptian government to stop its construction works at Rafah borders and open the Rafah border crossing permanently.
The letter condemned the wall as worse than the Berlin wall.
For its part, the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt strongly denounced the Egyptian authorities for building the steel wall, saying that the Egyptian regime makes false pretenses to increase the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza in compliance with Zio-American dictates.
In a statement, the group called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately stop building the wall and to allow the "Lifeline" convoy to arrive in Gaza.
It said that if Egypt wanted really to end the problems of Gaza tunnels, it has to open the Rafah crossing permanently.
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