توسيع مصر للمنطقة العازلة يوسّع التوتّر مع "حماس" - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Adnan Abu Amer

Adnan Abu Amer

يناير 9, 2015

A member of Palestinian security forces patrols near the border between Egypt and Gaza, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip January 3, 2015. Egyptian border troops shot dead a Palestinian youth as he tried to cross illegally from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4JYK4

A Palestinian man drives on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip September 3, 2013. Egyptian security forces have destroyed some 20 houses along the border with Gaza, local residents said on Tuesday, in what the Palestinian enclave's Islamist Hamas rulers fear is an effort to build a buffer zone to isolate them.
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX135NS

Egypt's Buffer-Zone Move Shocks Hamas

Adnan Abu Amer

Egyptian soldiers keep guard during a military operation in the Egyptian city of Rafah, near the border with the southern Gaza Strip October 30, 2014. Egypt began clearing residents from its border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to create a buffer zone following some of the worst anti-state violence since President Mohamed Mursi was overthrown last year. A day after being ordered by the army to move, many in the area had already packed their belongings and begun to leave when an announcement from Cairo ma

Tensions rise between Egypt, Hamas

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Hamas tries to make nice with Egypt to focus on intifada

Adnan Abu Amer

Palestinians militants leave after representatives of various Palestinian armed factions held a news conference to condemn the decision of an Egyptian court that banned Hamas' armed wing, in Gaza City February 5, 2015. An Egyptian court last week banned Hamas' armed wing and listed it as a terrorist organization, prompting Hamas to reject Egypt as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, a role it has played for decades.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4OC6I

Hamas reacts to potential Egyptian attack

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