Egypt set a deadline Friday for the
border with Gaza to be resealed.
Egyptian security forces announced by
loudspeaker in towns near the border with
the Gaza Strip that the frontier would be
closed from 1300 GMT, witnesses said.
A security source said the deadline was
intended to give the Gazans who have
crossed over the border fence in the divided
frontier town of Rafah on Tuesday night
sufficient time to return home.
Dozens of Egyptian police deployed
around the main crossing point in
the concrete border wall.
They blocked the path of Palestinians
trying to pass through the breach in the
Salaheddin gate neighbourhood to the
Egyptian side, but allowed free passage
in the other direction.
Palestinian security sources said that
Egyptian police had set up checkpoints
to prevent Palestinians travelling to the
provincial capital of el-Arish, 45
kilometres (30 miles) away.
Several other checkpoints had sprung up
beyond el-Arish on Thursday to prevent
Palestinians travelling to the capital, Cairo.
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