101. In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers when he approached an Israeli army position near the Kissufim border crossing to Israel. 102. In some cases, elected officials have been hostile to anything that would impede border crossings. 103. In the Northeast, there are several isolated border crossings where inspectors can work via video camera from dozens of miles away. 104. Initially, ambulances and medical helicopters from Tucson and Phoenix rushed to the border crossing at Lukeville to transport the most severely injured victims. 105. Initial targets, Jordanian officials say, included the Radisson Hotel in downtown Amman, two Christian holy sites and two border crossings into Israel. 106. In the north, Uzbekistan has also closed a crucial border crossing from Termez into Afghanistan. 107. Instead of parking by a downtown bridge, he took a freeway exit to a second border crossing, which abruptly leads across the international bridge. 108. International and internal border crossings are closed, and Palestinian movement inside the West Bank and Gaza is extremely limited by Israeli security. 109. Israel responded by firing tank shells at a post near the Erez border crossing in northern Gaza. 110. It has hundreds of miles of open desert and two dozen border crossings where paved roads lead to the largest cocaine market in the world. |