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Topping coverage of Egypt in the international press this morning was the Rafah <\/strong>crossing being opened and run by the Palestinian Authority for the first time since 2007. <\/strong>The crossing was opened for a limited period of three days, and Egypt has not yet signalled it will keep the crossing open beyond that, Reuters notes<\/a>. Some 30,000 Gazans have reportedly applied to enter Egypt since the beginning of the month, Palestinian Interior Ministry sources said. Egypt had reportedly delayed the crossing \u201cdue to internal Egyptian reasons,\u201d Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al Ahmad says, according to WAFA News Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Topping coverage of Egypt in the international press this morning was the Rafah crossing being opened and run by the Palestinian Authority for the first time since 2007. The crossing was opened for a limited period of three days, and Egypt has not yet signalled it will keep the crossing open beyond that, Reuters notes. 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