Israel closes all Gaza border crossings

Israel closes all Gaza border crossings

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Tuesday January 27, 2009 11:32 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC&Agencies
The Gaza-based border crossings administration announced that the Israeli occupation authorities sealed off all Gaza's crossings on Tuesday morning

The closure came right after an explosion near the Israeli military Kissufim crossing in southern Gaza, in which an Israeli soldier was killed and few other soldiers were wounded earlier this morning.

Also on Tuesday morning, the Israeli army shot dead a Palestinian farmer in the same area .

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[edit on 27-1-2009 by prjct]

[edit on 27-1-2009 by prjct]

by the look of things, things in this region are far from peaceful....it appears that kidnappings, killings, and more continue to wreck havoc on both sides.......here's hoping that Obama continues to be aggressive and puts both sides in their right place..........here is a pretty good overview of Obama's first week - www.independent.co.uk...

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the last thing that should happen is america or the uk to get involved. Once we do, iran/russia will get involved, and we all know what will happen if all those 6 countries got together for a drunken party