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Palestinian pilgrims stranded over Gaza return: police
0 Comments | AFP, December, 2007
CAIRO (AFP) — More than 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims were stuck on boats off Egypt's Red Sea port of Nuweiba on Saturday after refusing to return to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip via Israel, an Egyptian police source said.
"Some 2,250 Palestinian pilgrims are stranded on two ferryboats off Nuweiba" after sailing on Friday from Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba, the source told AFP.
The pilgrims have refused demands by the Egyptian authorities "to pledge in writing" that they would agree to return to Gaza via an Israeli border crossing, the source said.
Earlier a Jordanian foreign ministry official said in Amman that around 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims sailed on two boats from Aqaba to Nuweiba on Friday night after being promised they could re-enter Gaza through the...
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