DEMOCRATIC FRONT DEMANDS EGYPT TO OPEN RAFAH CROSSING TO PASSENGGERS

Gaza, 2 Safar 1436/25 November 2014 (MINA) – Senior official of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) Ziyad Jarghoun appealed to the Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah border crossing and allow thousands of Palestinian passengers to enter the Gaza Strip.

During a symposium organized by the union of Palestinian women in Rafah, Jarghoun also called on Egypt to allow Gaza people to travel freely through the Rafah border crossing, especially patients, students and holders of foreign passports.

“It is unreasonable for the closure of the Rafah crossing to continue for more than a month, in light of Israel’s closure of all crossings of the Strip except for one crossing, which has turned the Gaza Strip into a big prison,” he stated, The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Tuesday.

The DFLP official stressed that the Palestinian people want Egypt to return to its leading role in supporting their national cause.

In another context, the Hamas Movement slammed the continued Egyptian media smear campaign against it, describing it as an attempt to escape internal obligations and crises.

Commenting on an Egyptian lawsuit filed against al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas and the establishment of a buffer zone with Gaza, Husam Badran, its spokesman aboard, said that such steps adversely affect Egypt’s relations with the Palestinian people and not only Hamas and the sole beneficiary from them is the Israeli occupation.

Badran reiterated his Movement’s categorical denial of any interference in Egypt’s internal affairs and pointed out the failure of the Egyptian official authorities to provide real and logical evidence condemning Hamas or anyone in Gaza.(T/P008/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)