Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshal signed the Cairo agreement on 4 May 2011 and on 28 May, | The Palestinians were concerned that Israel would take control over the Gaza-Egypt border or even replace Rafah and objected |
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Due to the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Mubarak was forced to step down in February 2011 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 8 October 2009 "At approximately 01:35, Israeli fighter jets dropped 3 bombs on Salah al-Din Gate on the Egyptian border, south of Rafah, allegedly to destroy tunnels |
Gisha has blamed Israel for keeping the Rafah Crossing closed through indirect means and Egypt for submitting to Israeli pressure and not cooperate with the Hamas government.
30On 7 May 2007, the issue of the Israeli closure of Rafah and Kerem as well was raised at a Coordination and Evaluation meeting | A new "Rafah Crossing Point", also named in Arabic "Al Awda" The Return , was built south of Rafah |
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In July 2013, in the aftermath of the of , the border crossing was closed for several days by the | The movement of ambulances via Rafah was prohibited |
The Hamas-led PA Government threatened on 23 June to terminate the Rafah border-crossing agreement if the border would not be reopened.
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