Mahmoud Abbas tightens Israel’s siege of Gaza

ELECTRONIC INTIFADA – It didn’t take long for the vise on Gaza’s long-suffering population to be tightened in the new year.

The Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank, withdrew its personnel from the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt overnight Sunday. The move amounts to the effective closure of the sole point of exit and entry for the vast majority of Gaza’s more than two million residents. CONTINUE READING