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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
In contrast to what she had expected, it took Huda Khaled two nights and three days to get from Cairo airport to the Gaza Strip, a trip that normally takes six hours. Earlier this month, Egypt promised that it would ease border regulations for Palestinians, something that prompted the 55-year-old mother of seven to return to Gaza after an absence of more than 11 years due to political instability and the security situation in the besieged coastal enclave. Huda was supposed to visit her relatives and married daughters, but reality had other plans. “I believed the promises made by the Egyptian a…