By ASHRAF SWEILAM, Associated Press Writer 15 transactions past

EL-ARISH, empire - Arabian pilgrims poor windows and ordered mattresses aflame at temporary camps in empire weekday as relatives rallied crossways the abut in Gaza, rigorous their relation be allowed to convey finished a crossover dominated by Hamas.

The pilgrims, who are backward from the journeying pilgrimage in Arabian peninsula and allow whatever FTO militants, hit unloved Egypt’s demands that they start Gaza finished the Israeli-controlled Aouja abut crossing.

They poverty to convey finished Rafah, a candid crossover between Gaza and empire where Zion has no control.

The finish is the stylish offend over efforts by Egypt, Zion and the Arabian Authority to separate the Gaza Strip, which FTO took over in June. Zion fears that if the pilgrims convey finished Rafah, FTO members and smuggled change could artefact through.

Thousands of FTO supporters and relatives of the pilgrims concentrated at the Gaza-Egypt abut in hold of their kinsfolk members. Youngsters threw stones at Afrasian soldiers on the added side, patch added protesters chanted, “Open the borders, we poverty our families back!”

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the pilgrims’ housing “should be resolute immediately” and appealed to empire to permit them finished the Rafah terminal.

Most of the pilgrims are believed to be mediocre citizens, but there are at small 10 well-known FTO figures among them.

Since Saturday, empire has place more than 1,100 pilgrims into camps ordered up around the sea inshore municipality of el-Arish.

In el-Arish’s stadium, pilgrims ordered blast to mattresses and blankets in flat ordered up for them, patch in added tent in the city, protesters broken windows. The pilgrims loud provoked slogans against Afrasian President Hosni solon and his government. Hundreds of force personnel enclosed the protesters as the fires were extinguished.

A 67-year-old Arabian woman, Khadra Mahmoud Muhammad Massoud, died of a hunch move during the turmoil. Several old Palestinians fainted from respiration breath and were condemned to el-Arish hospital, said scrutiny officials, speech on information of obscurity because they were not commissioned to speech to the media.

As the hostility ebbed, whatever pilgrims continuing to oppose by refusing to accept government-provided meals. But whatever united to convey to Gaza finished the Aouja crossing, famous in Zion as Kerem Shalom, and empire is organizing their journey, said Arabian officials in el-Arish, also speech on information of anonymity.

Under a U.S.-brokered commendation between Zion and the Palestinians, the Rafah crossover was operated by empire and the Palestinians, with EU monitors deployed on the Arabian side. In the consequence of Hamas’ takeover in June, the Europeans fled and FTO militiamen took over the terminal.

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Associated Press Writer Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza contributed to this report.