#CAIRO — After a long journey from #Gaza, more than 100 American citizens and their families have entered #Egypt through the #RafahCrossing. Jonathan Webster, the #USEmbassy in Cairo's consul general, said some of those families are telling him they ran out of food and water during their journeys. #Israel
Fears that #Israel or international partners could pressure #Egypt into accepting millions of #Palestinians settling in the #Sinai have abounded for decades in #Cairo: #HosniMubarak strenuously denied reports in 2017 that he had cut a deal with #MargaretThatcher in 1983 to resettle Palestinians exiled in Lebanon in the peninsula, adding that #BenjaminNetanyahu, had also proposed the idea in 2010.
Palestinians in #Gaza expressed disbelief at the infiltration into #Israel. "It is like a dream. I still can't believe it," said one Gaza shopkeeper.
The attack came a day after Israel marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war that brought the country to the verge of catastrophic defeat in a surprise attack by #Syria and #Egypt. #YomKippurWar
“Canadians and other foreign nationals who were aiming to leave #Gaza via an Egyptian border crossing at Rafah on Saturday won't be able to do so and have been instructed to stay away from the area until further notice.
CBC News has viewed a message that #Israel officials sent to several western embassies indicating that Saturday's potential window for crossing the border into #Egypt was cancelled.”
#Biden: I got a commitment from the Israelis and the president of #Egypt that the crossing be opened. The highway had to be repaved because it was in very bad shape, and I believe that in the next 24 to 48 hours, the first 20 trucks will come across. #Israel
ANCA Calls for Expulsion of Rep. Cuellar from Congress - Sarah Leah Whitson: Is anyone following the tsunami of foreign government corruption that has overtaken our government? Latest examples are @repcuellar now indicted for taking $600K from #Azerbaijan on the heels of @SenatorMenendez indictment for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes from #Egypt... 🧵@azerbaijan@egypt
#history bubble: Does anyone have links to #3D printable #stoneage tools? Ancient #Greece and #Rome? There's a bit available for #Egypt ian statues, but I didn't find anything awesome either.
"European #GasPrices rose almost 7% on Monday morning, following news about supply risks.
On Sunday, the Egyptian cabinet announced that their natural gas imports fell to zero from 800 million cubic feet per day. #Egypt imports gas from Israel, among others, and sends some of it to #Europe in liquidated form (#LNG)."
The threat to suspend the Camp David Accords came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said sending troops into Rafah was necessary to win the war against Hamas.
"If we killed 4000 Palestinian kids, you know what? IT WASN'T ENOUGH"! Stewart Seldowitz former US state department employee and Obama advisor
#Video of him harassing a #halal food truck owner in New York City has gone viral. He threaten the Egyptian American vendor by saying that " #Mukhaberat (Egyptian secret police) is going to take your parents " .
This happened more than once and Seldowitz didn't have any fear of the police either.
Do you think US, #France, #UK and other governments going to call for a demonstration to condemn the recent wave of islamophobic attacks in their countries? Like the one they did against #antisemitism?
ERC Griffiths, Nov 9: "Over the past few weeks, I have engaged with various leaders, partners, & interlocutors to support humanitarian efforts & negotiate access. I have been to #Egypt, #Israel, & the [#OPT]. I have met w/the families of some of the Israeli #hostages & spoken to families in #Gaza.
The situation is insupportable. To allow it to continue would be a travesty."
"Egypt turned back its trucks carrying fuel and goods heading to Gaza after the Israeli army carried out a warning strike near a checkpoint on the border with the strip."
Osorkon I, ruled as part of the 22nd Dynasty considered by scholars to be part of the Third Intermediate Period. He wears the nemes-headcloth with uraeus-serpent and a pharaoh’s beard. His name appears in a cartouche seven times on this sphinx.
If anyone has expertise in pharaonic iconography, I’d love to know if the number seven is significant in this context.
CNN is reporting that it is #Egypt not opening the crossing. Holy shit, with no mention that every-time they try to open it that Israel bombs the crossing. Stop blaming Egypt for Israel’s crimes.
#Egypt detains activists after joining pro-#Gaza protest. “Detentions prompted by slogans the activists in question shouted against North Sinai's businessman Ibrahim El-Argani” @egypt@palestine
#AncientSiteSunday: the mortuary temple of #Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri. The temple is located on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, close to the Valley of the Kings. Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, she reigned from ca. 1473-1458 BC.
This could be a mere human error, but I suspect more as I've seen it too often.
The German supermarket chain #Rewe promotes their continual offers of regional goods, especially fruit and vegetables. Small signs tell customers that certain items are from the local area, and people seem to trust them.
An occasional check, though, and it is clear this is not the case. These potatoes are from #Egypt which, no matter how you fold the globe, is not regional to #Bremen. A second container had potatoes from Israel, also not local by any stretch of the imagination.
In fact, none of the items marked as Regional goods on offer in Rewe Bremen yesterday were regional at all.
Time, perhaps, to give someone a geography lesson, or ask whether this is being done on purpose.
Egypt threatens to suspend key peace treaty if Israel pushes into Rafah on its border, officials say (apnews.com)
The threat to suspend the Camp David Accords came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said sending troops into Rafah was necessary to win the war against Hamas.