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"Egyptian border guards began repairing another section of the destroyed Gaza Strip border wall Tuesday, slowing limiting Palestinians from entering Egypt a week after they first rushed into this city.
A day earlier, Egyptian guards sealed one section of the broken wall, building a chain-link fence across one of the Gaza border breaches.
Two large border breaches remained open - including the one guards were repairing Tuesday. The Egyptians also deployed several dozen riot police armed with shields and batons at the two remaining openings, suggesting that the cross-border free-for-all may soon come to an end. Other riot police blocked Rafah's main road and told Palestinian cars to head back to Gaza.
But it was unclear when Egypt planned to completely fix the wall, and cars and trucks continued travel freely between the divided city Tuesday.
Earlier Tuesday, Israeli officials said that Israel does not plan to block Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from assuming control of Gaza's border crossing with Egypt if he reaches an agreement to do so with Cairo."
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