Smoke rises after a house was blown up during a military operation by Egyptian security forces in the Egyptian city of Rafah near the border with southern Gaza Strip on November 20, 2014. Egypt is set to expand the buffer zone between the town of Rafah and the Gaza Strip from 500 metres to 1km, as counterinsurgency efforts by the authorities continue. Security forces began evacuating the area bordering Sinai's Rafah on October 28, as one of the steps taken in response to militant attacks on security personnel in the Peninsula on October 24 which left over 33 killed. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib
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