Thousands of Palestinians Flee the Gaza Strip into Egypt

Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled the Gaza Strip into Egypt after masked gunmen blasted through a border wall separating Palestine from Egypt in search of food and supplies. Last week, after months-long blockade, Israel sealed Gaza's borders completely.

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Egypt

• Egyptian intensive efforts to contain ramifications of Gaza siege from the Egypt State Information Service
• AboulGheit assigns Egypt's representative to the UN to present the Egyptian stance at the Security Council's emergency session on the situation in Gaza from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Israel

• Israeli UN mission to oppose Security Council resolution on Gaza from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Statements to the Security Council: The situation in Gaza and Sderot from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Palestine

• EC: Only Political Agreement Can Stem Violence press release from the Palestine Media Center
• PLO Negotiations Affairs Department: One-off Delivery of Fuel, Medicine Means '’Putting Palestinians on an I.V. Drip’ press release from the Palestine Media Center

United Nations Security Council

• Gaza situation ‘extremely fragile,’ warns UN political chief from the UN News Centre
  

Read "Gazans Knock Down Border, Flee to Egypt" from the Washington Post and "Witnesses, Officials Say Thousands of Palestinians Flood Into Egypt Through Breached Gaza Wall" from FOX News. You might also want to read "Gazans blast border, flood into Egypt" from the Middle East Times (Egypt), "PLO: Israel ‘Putting Palestinians on an I.V. Drip': Palestinians Storm Egypt Border in Rush for Food Supplies United Nations Security Council" from the Palestine Media Center, and "Hamas takes control at frontier as 200,000 Gazans enter Egypt" from Haaretz (Israel).

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