Rafah seizure a 'dangerous escalation', Hamas says Hamas has condemned the Israeli move to seize the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing this morning. "The storming of the occupation army to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt at dawn today is a dangerous escalation against a civilian facility protected by international law that aims to exacerbate the humanitarian situation in the strip - by closing it and preventing the flow of emergency relief aid through it - to our besieged people, who are subjected to a war of extermination and systematic starvation by the Nazi occupation," a statement from...