Palestinians take part in a protest in front of the gate of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip November 25, 2008. Hundreds of Palestinians rallied on Tuesday to demand Egypt and Saudi Arabia facilitate their travel to Mecca for the ritual Muslim pilgrimage in December. Rafah crossing, Gaza's only border crossing with Egypt, has largely been closed since June 2007 when the Islamist Hamas group seized Gaza Strip from rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.