Ezzedeen Alqassam Bridages Information Office. 29/07/07. The foreign ministry of Hamas government stated its objection Sunday to the Palestinian Authority-negotiated plan to return Palestinians stranded in Egypt to the Gaza Strip throughZionist-controlled border crossings. Under the agreement, announced yesterday, more than 600 of the 6,000 stranded Palestinians will be taken on busses to Al Awja crossing, known to Zionists as Nitzana, through Zionist entity to Erez Crossing, at the northern end of the Gaza Strip. The name of each person taken into Gaza must be approved in advance by Zionist authorities.The foreign ministry in the Hamas government issued a statement Sunday saying, "We warn of this step as this will harm dozens of the stranded Palestinians; they might be arrested by the Zionists." The statement also criticized the plan for placing Palestinians "in danger" by using Zionist-controlled crossings.
Meanwhile, at a meeting in the city of Rafah, leaders in the left-leaning Palestinian National Initiative party called for Rafah crossing to be opened.
To date at least 29 people have died while stranded on the Egyptian side of Rafah crossing. Approximately 6,000 Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip have been marooned there since fighting between Hamas and Fatah caused Zionist and Egyptian authorities to close the crossing in mid June.
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