Cairo - Egypt Sunday allowed convoys carrying
humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through
the Israel-controlled Karam Abu-Salem border
crossing, according to Egyptian security officials.
The Karam Abu-Salem border crossing, where the
borders of Egypt, Israel and Gaza meet, is about
14 kilometres south of the Rafah border between
the Strip and Egypt.
The passage of the relief aid via the Israeli-controlled
crossing was believed to have been to ensure that no
weapons were smuggled into the Gaza Strip.
Egypt has previously allowed relief aid into Gaza, and
wounded Gazans to pass into Egypt via the Rafah border
crossing which is controlled by the militant movement Hamas.
Scores of Palestinians were killed and wounded in
Israeli operations launched on the Gaza Strip last
week in response to rocket attacks fired from there
on Israeli border towns.
Israel has also imposed a blockade on the territory,
which led suspected Hamas gunmen to blast open the
border with Egypt on January 23, allowing thousands
of Palestinians to cross over.
Israel and the US have been pressing Egypt to
reassert control over the border saying that weapons
and militants might have been smuggled into the
Gaza Strip through the border breaches.
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