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Palestinians wait in a taxi to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip May 26, 2011
Monday, May. 30, 2011

Open quoteI feel this is the start of freedom.Close quote

  • HASNA EL-RYES,
  • one of the hundreds of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip who passed through the reopened border into Egypt over the weekend, signaling the end of a four-year blockade
Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters | Source: New York Times