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Friday, March 15, 2013

Israel will reopen the goods crossings of Gaza

Jerusalem (Reuters)-Israel said it would reopen the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing into the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, six days after the closure after a rocket fired from the territory struck the Jewish State, Palestinian pockets.

"Because of the security assessment it was decided that the Kerem Shalom crossing will be opened tomorrow for transport of goods," the Agency's statement said Israel's Defense Ministry to coordinate it with the Palestinians Sunday, reported AFP.

"This is the first time the crossing to be opened since the last rocket attacks on Ashkelon," a town in southern Israel.

Israel has closed the crossings for commercial operations to the South of the Gaza Strip and also restrict access to Israel through the Erez crossing after a rocket from Gaza hit Israel on Tuesday.

A Defence Ministry spokesman told AFP, saying that the Erez will also continue its activities normally on Monday.

The attack marked the first time guerrillas fired a projectile in perbatasa more than three months after the cease-fire deal brokered Egypt, which ended a deadly eight-day battle in November.

Gaza fighters initially claimed they had fired the rockets in response to the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israel jails.

The border remained tense over the weekend, with three Palestinians wounded by Israel fire, and shot from the Gaza Strip hit Israel military vehicles.

Four Palestinians were killed by Israel gunfire and more than 100 wounded since a truce between the Jewish State of 21 November and Hamas as the ruler of Gaza, according to the latest report of the UN Office for the coordination of humanitarian assistance (OCHA). (AK)



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Saturday, October 29, 2011

St Paul's to reopen to visitors

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28 October 2011 Last updated at 01:33 GMT Occupy London protest outside St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral authorities have asked the protesters to leave St Paul's Cathedral is to reopen later after being closed to the public for a week over health and safety fears about a protest camp in its churchyard.

A service at 12:30 BST will mark the reopening, although the dome and galleries will remain closed.

The large number of tents pitched by supporters of the Occupy London protest led to the closure last Friday.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said the situation was a "debacle".

Dr Giles Fraser resigned as canon chancellor of St Paul's on Thursday, saying he feared the cathedral was set on a course that could lead to the forcible eviction of demonstrators.

The City of London Corporation's planning committee is due to hear legal advice on Friday and decide whether to take court action against the demonstrators.

Earlier this week the Dean of St Paul's, the Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, said the cathedral authorities had taken legal advice on whether to take court action.

Dr Fraser says he could not support any move by the church to use "violence"

The church authorities have asked the demonstrators to leave the churchyard but the Occupy London group has said it intends to continue its protest against corporate greed.

St Paul's is able to reopen because of changes to the layout of the tents outside the cathedral.

Meanwhile, in the Telegraph article, Lord Carey said he was concerned "that the reputation of Christianity is being damaged" over the events at St Paul's.

He questioned how the cathedral authorities had dealt with the demonstration.

He wrote: "One moment the church was reclaiming a valuable role in hosting public protest and scrutiny, the next it was looking in turns like the temple which Jesus cleansed, or the officious risk-averse 'elf 'n safety bureaucracy of urban legend.

"How could the dean and chapter at St Paul's have let themselves get into such a position?"

He also accused the protesters of intransigence after refusing to leave when asked and said a picture emerged of protesters as "spoilt middle-class children returning home at night for a shower and a warm bed".

"It has been a debacle that should prompt urgent public debate both within the Church of England, and throughout society at large."

The cathedral has claimed to be losing £20,000 a day since its closure.

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