Post-Mubarak, Egypt-Gaza crossing rules tighten

[oberliner]

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Getting out of Gaza is harder than ever almost a month after former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak handed over power to a special military council, travelers reported.

From the start of the Egyptian revolution in January, Gaza residents expressed hope that a change in the Egyptian regime would lead to the easing of restrictions at the Rafah crossing, which connects the coastal enclave to the Arab world.

"You can’t cross to Egypt, for security reasons, is the only explanation you hear," one traveler told Ma'an, saying he heard a man in front of him in line with medical papers turned back on the same grounds.

"It's the same suffering and the same pretext we hear when we try to cross via Erez crossing in the north," he said.

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