Cairo orders a security cordon at the Rafah border crossing to open fire at the Palestinians fleeing to Egypt from Israeli raids on Gaza.

The task force has been deployed to take a stance against the Gazans seeking refuge in Sinai amid continues Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, Debka reported on Friday.

This is while an increased number of Palestinians are on their way to the border crossing following reports that Tel Aviv is scheduling artillery bombardment.

The blighted residents of the coastal sliver have sustained seven days of Israel's unabated incursion which have so far killed 430 Palestinians injuring nearly 2,250 others. The aggression started last Saturday with nearly 50 coordinated onslaughts.

Meanwhile, security guards have suppressed and dispersed thousands of Egyptian protesters, who called on the country's authorities to reconsider their refusal to open the crossing point.

On Tuesday, the Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said that Cairo's cooperation was of utmost importance in defusing the crisis.

"If you do not open the Rafah border crossing, if you do not come to the rescue of your brothers in Gaza, then you have a hand in the siege and the killing and in causing the Palestinian tragedy," he said.

Thousands of demonstrators in Morocco, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Indian Kashmir, Jordan, Iran, Turkey, Australia, Vatican and the West Bank poured to streets on Friday to condemn the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

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