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A correspondent in Sinai

A correspondent in Sinai

Oct 11, 2017

An Egyptian soldier sits atop a bulldozer on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip September 12, 2013. Cairo closed the Rafah crossing, Gaza's main window to the world, completely on Wednesday after assailants crashed two explosive-laden cars into a security building adjacent to the border zone, killing six Egyptian soldiers. The bulldozing of the tunnels has deepened Gaza residents' feelings of isolation in a tiny coastal territory that many have described as a prison. Egypt has suggested Palest — An Egyptian soldier sits atop a bulldozer on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip, Sept. 12, 2013. — REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

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Egyptian soldiers stand guard atop a mosque's minaret in the Egyptian city of Rafah, near the border with southern Gaza Strip September 8, 2013. Egyptian security forces have destroyed at least 20 houses along the border with Gaza, local residents said, 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 (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTX13CMO

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A correspondent in Sinai

A correspondent in Sinai