Egypt said it will not accept any changes to the security arrangements that were in place along its border with Gaza before the war started last year
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![Palestinian poets and translators read their work at a preview event for the Palestine Writes Literature Festival. [Brooke Anderson/The New Arab]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2023-09/IMG_5724.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=UkX-84WK)
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