{"id":9237,"date":"2024-04-16T21:11:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2024-04-16T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:11:53","slug":"sisi-opens-taba-crossing-for-israeli-tourists-while-blocking-aid-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2024\/04\/16\/sisi-opens-taba-crossing-for-israeli-tourists-while-blocking-aid-to-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisi Opens Taba Crossing for Israeli Tourists While Blocking Aid to Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-After preventing aid to Gaza and the entry of refugees into Egypt, and after months of humiliation and extortion, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi opened the Taba crossing to Israeli tourists in a provocative move that sparked a lot of anger and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Footage circulated showing dozens of Israelis crowding at the Taba border crossing with the Israeli entity, where large numbers of people eager to visit Sinai had gathered.<\/p>\n<p>The Taba crossing, also known as &#8220;Mena\u1e25em Begin,&#8221; is a land border crossing between Eilat in Israel and Taba in Egypt, located about 10 km south of the center of the city of Eilat on the Israel-Egypt border.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u0633\u064a \u064a\u0641\u062a\u062d \u0645\u0639\u0628\u0631 \u0637\u0627\u0628\u0627 \u0623\u0645\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u064a\u0627\u062d &#8220;\u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644\u064a\u064a\u0646&#8221; \u0648\u064a\u0645\u0646\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0627\u0639\u062f\u0627\u062a \u0639\u0646 \u063a\u0632\u0629! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jZeJGzbsAX\">pic.twitter.com\/jZeJGzbsAX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0631\u0635\u062f (@RassdNewsN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RassdNewsN\/status\/1780264767858282868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Targeting Israelis<\/h3>\n<p>According to a video report from the Egyptian opposition platform &#8220;Rassd,&#8221; the congestion at the border crossing with the occupation comes after it was announced to be open again around the clock, after months during which it was open from 8 am to 5 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the decline in the numbers of Israelis heading to Egypt for tourism because of the war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip since last October, coinciding with incidents of Israelis being targeted in Egypt.<\/p>\n<h3>Between Taba and Rafah<\/h3>\n<p>The ease of entry for Israelis into Sinai through the Taba crossing has been compared by some to the treatment received by the people of Gaza at the Rafah crossing, where they are forced to pay thousands of dollars to save their lives from the fires of war, in addition to its closure to humanitarian aid trucks and medical teams.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 2023, witnessed the peak of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/2023\/11\/13\/shocking-video-israeli-tourist-harassing-egyptian-girls-in-dahab\/\">Israeli<\/a> tourism to Sinai with 13,000 travelers daily through the Taba crossing, in addition to 200,000 visitors during the days of the Jewish Passover holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watan-After preventing aid to Gaza and the entry of refugees into Egypt, and after months of humiliation and extortion, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi opened the Taba crossing to Israeli tourists in a provocative move that sparked a lot of anger and frustration. 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I have many printed books, including: (Questions - confrontations in thought, life and creativity), \"Customs and beliefs of Homs Governorate - Syrian Writers' Commission in Damascus 2011, (images from social life in Bedouin) of Al-Rahsah Printing and Publishing House in Homs 2008 and (features and flags from Homs) of Taha Printing and Publishing House 2010. - Many written books, including: (Obad and cultural creations from Syria), (Writing Time - Listening Time - Dialogues in Thought, Life and Creativity) - printed electronically on \"eBook\", (Trades and Industries of Heritage of Homs), (Exotic Hand, Face and Tongue - Photographs from Popular Heritage s in Homs) and (Famous Homs in the 12th and 13th CentCenturies).","sameAs":["https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100004432501735","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/kh66aw"],"url":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/author\/khaled\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}