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Gaza wounded allowed into Egypt for treatment
Mar 2, 2008, 12:42 GMT
Rafah - Ambulances carrying Palestinians wounded in the Israeli air and ground assaults on Gaza were allowed to cross the border into Egypt, witnesses and border staff said.
The Palestinians were being taken to hospitals in the Egyptian border town of Arish and in Cairo, said border staff. It was not clear how many Palestinians were receiving treatment.
Cross-border movement was prevented after Cairo closed the last breach in its border with the Gaza Strip on February 3, ending free movement for Palestinians through a section in the border wall blown up by Palestinian gunmen.
For 12 days, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flooded Egypt's border towns to stock up on supplies made scarce by an Israeli blockade of the territory imposed in response to rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli border towns.
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