The party’s over in Gaza

Egypt is now trying, in fits and starts, to crack down on Gazans who are refusing to go back across the border, and the scene is getting ugly: Abid Katib/Getty Images Looks like Hosni Mubarak’s going to need a new PR strategy. For more scenes from the past two days of chaos along the border, ...

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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Egypt is now trying, in fits and starts, to crack down on Gazans who are refusing to go back across the border, and the scene is getting ugly:

Egypt is now trying, in fits and starts, to crack down on Gazans who are refusing to go back across the border, and the scene is getting ugly:

Abid Katib/Getty Images

Looks like Hosni Mubarak’s going to need a new PR strategy. For more scenes from the past two days of chaos along the border, check out FP‘s new photo essay on Gaza.

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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