Hamas urges Egypt to ease Gaza blockade
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called on Egypt to ease restrictions on the Gaza Strip, as officials visit Cairo in a bid to amend strained relations. Senior Hamas Official, Khalil al-Haya, has urged Egypt to allow more traffic through the Rafah border crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world. Last year, Egypt opened the crossing for just 21 days. The new Egyptian government has been criticized for being complicit in the siege of Gaza, having shutdown its border in 2013 and destroying hundreds of tunnels. Gaza desperately relies on the tunnels to smuggle in basic commodities. The densely populated coastal enclave is home to over1.8 million Palestinians. It has been suffering a crippling Israeli blockade by land, air, and sea since 2007.
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