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Thursday 30 November 2017
Israel eases limits on US-bound Gazan travelers Egypt

leader gives
By FARES AKRAM In recent months, it has border movement with the cess; thank God my young
Associated Press barred Gazans from enter- Israelis. children did not need to forces 3
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ing Israel for visa interviews come and experience it."
— Israel on Wednesday at the U.S. Consulate after Ahmed Ouda, who went to Mohammed al-Maqadma, months to
launched a program to some applicants fled into the interview with his wife spokesman for the civil af-
rael is expected to run calm restive
provide shuttle service for hiding in Israel or the West and teenage son, came fairs committee, said Is-
Gazans who need to trav- Bank to seek work. The re- home disappointed. Hop-
el to the U.S. Consulate in strictions have prevented ing to visit his brother, a U.S. similar shuttles in the future,
Jerusalem — an operation several hundred people citizen who lives in Califor- though no schedule has Sinai
that could ease one of the from applying at the Con- nia, Ouda said the entire been set.
many restrictions it places sulate for visas to travel or family, including younger "It could be two days a By HAMZA HENDAWI
on Palestinians who want study in the U.S. children who remained be- month, one day every two Associated Press
to exit the blockaded ter- About 100 Palestinians hind in Gaza, were turned months," he said. "I think this CAIRO (AP) — Just days af-
ritory. were allowed Wednes- down for visas after his in- is part of the Israeli policies ter the worst terrorist attack
Israel allows only a small day to cross into Israel and terview. that we don't know their in Egypt's modern history,
number of Gazans to travel board two buses bound goals." President Abdel-Fattah el-
through Israel — mostly for for Jerusalem. They were "We spent 12 hours, mostly Wednesday's pilot program Sissi on Wednesday gave
medical care or other hu- accompanied by officials without access to water suffered a setback on its his security forces a three-
manitarian grounds. It cites from the Palestinian Civil and services, and we were first day, however, with the month deadline to restore
security considerations for Affairs Committee, an of- rejected at the end," he apparent disappearance "security and stability" in
the tight restrictions. fice that coordinates cross- said. "It's an exhausting pro- of two Gazans. q the troubled northern Si-
nai, the epicenter of an
Libya migrant camps focus at EU-Africa summit increasingly brutal Islamic
insurgency.
In a televised ceremony
By LORNE COOK marking the birthday of Is-
Associated Press lam's Prophet Muhammad,
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) el-Sissi authorized his new
— European Union and chief of staff, Maj. Gen.
African leaders pledged Mohammed Farid Hega-
Wednesday to do more to zy, to use "all brute force"
help thousands of migrants against the militants.
stranded in squalid deten- The speech was a very
tion centers in Libya, the public show by the Egyp-
main jumping-off point for tian leader that he will take
desperate people setting new action after last Fri-
out in unseaworthy boats day's startlingly grisly and
in search of better lives in bloody attack on worship-
Europe. pers in a mosque In a Sinai
While youth and develop- village. But it also repre-
ment are the main themes sented a risk for el-Sissi. In
of their EU-Africa summit in his speech, he gave no in-
Ivory Coast, migration is a dication what would hap-
key issue, pushed further pen if the military fails to
into the public eye after defeat within three months
recent footage of migrants German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, center, and militants who have been
at a slave auction in Libya South African President Jacob Zuma, right, attend a round table event at an EU Africa summit battling his security forces
in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said
drew international horror Wednesday, during an EU-Africa summit, that the European Union wants to work more closely for more than three years.
and condemnation.Ivory with Africa to address illegal migration. El-Sissi's calls for "brute
Coast President Alassane (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) force," repeated several
Ouattara said the security times since the attack, ap-
of Europe and Africa will address on the continent in parts of the world will be go missing annually in at- pear to signal a new esca-
"depend on our capacity Burkina Faso. brought home and "reha- tempts to cross the Medi- lation, suggesting the mili-
to resolve the crisis in Libya Macron said he wants "Af- bilitated," calling it appall- terranean, but with Africa's tary could turn to scorched
and to bring an end, by all rica and Europe to help ing that "some Nigerians population forecast to rise earth tactics that many of
available means, to the in- populations trapped in were being sold like goats significantly in coming de- the president's loyalists in
human treatment inflicted Libya by providing massive for few dollars in Libya." cades many more are likely the media have been urg-
on migrants." support to the evacuation Europe has struggled to to take the risk. ing.
German Chancellor An- of endangered people." slow the flow of tens of To focus efforts, the EU, During Wednesday's cer-
gela Merkel said that "it's He did not elaborate, say- thousands of Africans mak- African Union and United emony, the military chief
very important that we sim- ing he would formally de- ing the dangerous cross- Nations announced that of staff, appointed last
ply support Africans to put tail his proposal during the ing of the Mediterranean they would set up a special month, rose up from his
a stop to illegal migration, summit. through development aid task force to help protect front-row seat and stood in
so people don't have to ei- Already Burkina Faso's for- and other means, includ- migrants, notably those rigid attention as el-Sissi, a
ther suffer in horrible camps eign affairs minister has re- ing funds to tighten border detained in conflict-torn general-turned-president,
in Libya or are even being called his ambassador from controls. But many Africans Libya. addressed him.
traded." Libya, calling it "unaccept- feel pressured to make the Details of its work must be "I am mandating Maj. Gen.
On the eve of the meeting, able to have slaves in this journey, risking death and fleshed out, but the main Mohammed Farid Hegazy
French President Emmanu- 21st century." abuse, saying high unem- aim is to "save and protect before you and the entire
el Macron called the traf- Nigerian President Muham- ployment and climate lives of migrants and refu- people of Egypt to restore
ficking of African migrants madu Buhari said Wednes- change leave them little gees along the routes and security and stability in Si-
a "crime against humanity" day that all Nigerians choice. in particular inside Libya."q nai," el-Sissi said. q
as he made his first major stranded in Libya and other At least 3,000 drown or