Rafah, Egypt - Egyptian security forces arrested 15 people on Friday on charges of making rockets to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip through border tunnels, an Egyptian security source said. He added that authorities confiscated components that could have been used to make rockets in a workshop located in the Sheikh Zuwaid area of the northern part of the Sinai peninsula.

Border tunnels were dug by Palestinians to transfer food supplies, goods and even people from Egypt into the besieged enclave.

Rafah, Egypt  - A senior Hamas member trying to return to Gaza Thursday after talks with Egyptian mediators was turned back at the Rafah crossing by border guards who found cash in his bags totalling nearly 12 million dollars.

But Senior Hamas member Ayman Taha was allowed back into the strip late Thursday after Egyptian authorities insisted he put the money in a bank in the north Sinai town of Arish, al-Arabiya news channel reported.

Rafah, Egypt  - Eleven Arab doctors crossed into the Gaza Strip from Egypt on Friday to treat Palestinians injured in Israel's 14-day offensive, the official MENA news agency reported.

During the past few days, doctors from around the world, including Malaysia, Turkey and Greece, have gathered on the Egyptian side of the borders pledging to get through to help the injured.

Egyptian authorities had refused to let them pass citing "security reasons".

Rafah, Egypt - A Palestinian-Scottish couple ar

Rafah, Egypt - Egypt uncovered three tunnels near the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip Saturday and seized weapons and explosives in the strategic Sinai peninsula, according to secu