AdvertisementSinai Attack Dashes Hopes For Closer Gaza-Egypt TiesAugust 06, 2012Lulu Garcia-NavarrofacebookEmailPalestinians look at items in a gift shop as they wait to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip last month. Egypt shut down the crossing less than a week later, after a deadly attack near Rafah left 16 Egyptian soldiers dead. (Tara Todras-Whitehill for NPR)