Hamas Shuts Down Pro-Sisi Egypt Center

Members of Hamas security forces pray before a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah border crossing, at the crossing in the southern Gaza Strip September 17, 2013. Cairo closed the Rafah crossing, Gaza's main window to the world, completely last week after assailants crashed two explosive-laden cars into a security building adjacent to the border zone, killing six Egyptian soldiers. Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesman for the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, said 1,000 patients a month required med

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Hamas Shuts Down Pro-Sisi Egypt Center

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