Posted on 02/06/2008 11:56:57 AM PST by Alouette
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An Irish woman who crossed a breached border into Gaza with her daughter said Wednesday that border guards were preventing them from returning to Egypt.
Treasa Ni Cheannabhain said she and her daughter, an Egyptian national, entered Gaza on Saturday, more than a week after Hamas militants knocked down the border wall.
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flooded into Egypt, Ni Cheannabhain, 56, said she sneaked into Gaza with her 19-year-old daughter, Naisrin el-Safty, to distribute money to needy Gazans.
Egyptian guards resealed the border Sunday, ending the 12-day breach. Ni Cheannabhain said she had not heard warnings that the crossing would close.
The pair tried to return to Egypt late Tuesday, but were stopped by Egyptian border guards.
"I admitted I entered illegally, but we want to come back in legally," Ni Cheannabhain said in a telephone interview from the border town of Rafah.
Ni Cheannabhain is married to an Egyptian physician.
Ireland's Foreign Ministry is trying to help but only Egypt can authorize the pair's return, a ministry spokesman said.
"The Egyptian authorities apparently are refusing to let her cross back over to Egypt," said the spokesman on customary condition of anonymity.
Words. Just. Fail. Me.
Heh. Keep her in there.
The thing is, she’s still raising the average IQ over there.
And Ireland will ask Israel to help her out and Israel will.
This is a bit off topic, but, what kind of Irish name is that, and how is it she has an Egyptian daughter, complete with wild Egyptian name and “national” status?
Wonder if this family is related to Rachel Corrie? Sounds like kissin’ cousins.
She probably fell for her Egyptian doctor husband when he was in Ireland or the UK, and stupidly followed him back to the sandpit. The daughter’s probably an Egyptian citizen by birth, would be my guess, or perhaps because her father is one (since, after all, women don’t count in Islam).
Although, I’m amused to see that even the Gaza Palestinians apparently have an illegal alien problem (of two whole people) and need a border fence! ARE YOU WATCHING, PRESIDENT BUSH?
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She’s Irish with a daughter who’s an Egyptian National?
Is this Irish as in ethnicity or Irish as in Nation of Passport?
Stupid is as stupid does. No sympathy here.
Treasa Ni Cheannabhain
The Irish are as bad as American Blacks at picking weird names from their roots to demonstrate their "otherness" from "The Man."
Gaelic?
She's a crazy lefty.
“I see stupid people everywhere”..
.....Words. Just. Fail. Me.....
How about “She’s smarter tham Rachel Corrie”
Note Mr. Chomsky’s name there, too.
carolyn
No she's not, she couldn't even find an IDF bulldozer to stand in front of.
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