(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - Ghazi Hamad, a senior official with the Hamas foreign ministry, said this week that Egypt (and not Israel) had turned Gaza into a "big prison as a result of the continued closure of the Rafah border crossing by the Egyptian authorities since June 30." Now that the charge is being made against Egypt, most international journalists, human rights organizations and "pro-Palestine" groups have chosen to look the other way. Residents of Gaza are asking these days: Why haven't foreign activists tried to organize another flotilla aid convoy to break the Egyptian blockade? While the Egyptian authorities are tightening the blockade on Gaza, this week more than 500 truckloads of goods and construction material entered the area from Israel.
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