(01 Sept 08 - RV) Today is the start of the Muslim month of Ramadan.As a good will
gesture to mark this month of fasting hundreds of Gaza residents crossed into Egypt
over the weekend when the sealed border was opened for two days. Egypt had closed
the crossing after the militant Islamic group Hamas seized control of the territory
last year, confining Gaza’s 1.5 million residents to the coastal territory. Father
Manuel Musallam is the only Catholic priest working in the Gaza Strip. He told us
that Egypt’s gesture was “not enough” to help the grave humanitarian situation in
the Strip.