Ahram Online
Palestinians reportedly entered North Sinai through cross-border tunnels with plans to travel to Alexandria and then Europe
Sunday 17 Aug 2014
Egyptian authorities said on Sunday that 17 Palestinians have been
arrested while trying to illegally enter the country in attempts to flee
ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip, state-run news agency MENA
reported.
The Palestinians were arrested after they illegally reached the North
Sinai border town of Al-Arish via underground tunnels with Gaza. They
were headed to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria from where they
intended to illegally cross to Europe, MENA said.
The densely-populated Palestinian territory has been devastated by a
more than month-long assault by Israeli forces that has killed almost
2,000 Palestinians.
The United Nations said 425,000 of the strip's 1.8 million people have been displaced by the war.
Approximately 5 million Palestinian refugees live in UN-run camps in
Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank after they or their
families fled or were displaced during the 1948 war that saw Israel's
founding. 
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