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Gaza Palestinians topple border wall, pour into Egypt
« on: January 23, 2008, 11:11:50 AM »
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RAFAH, Egypt — After seven months of living under a crippling Israeli economic blockade of the Gaza Strip , Palestinian militants toppled border walls with Egypt early Wednesday, opening up a floodgate that allowed tens of thousands of desperate residents to pour into Egypt in search of food and fuel. 

Under orders from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian soldiers allowed the Palestinians to stream over the border.

In a well-planned operation early Wednesday morning, Palestinian militants toppled large sections of the concrete and metal walls that separated Egypt from the Gaza Strip .

Within hours, tens of thousands of Palestinians were streaming across the border in search of basic goods that Israel stopped delivering after Hamas militants seized military control of Gaza last June.

Families loaded donkey carts with feta cheese, dish soap and soda. Young men ferried dozens of 100-pound bags of concrete into Gaza . Families spirited 10-gallon cans of olive oil and gasoline across the border.

"We've been choked, choked," said Imm Fadi , a 40-year-old mother of five, as she stood next to an Egyptian armored personnel carrier with her 11-year-old son. "Tell the Israelis to leave us alone. Tell the world to look at how we are living."

The situation in Gaza has grown increasingly dire as Israel has tightened its economic blockade. It stopped delivering all but essential goods. Last week, it cut off fuel for the Gaza Strip power plant, throwing large parts of the region into darkness.

It's refusing to lift the blockade until Palestinian militants abandon their daily rocket attacks on southern Israel .

While the United Nations and aid groups have condemned the Israeli actions as illegal under international law, Israel continues to squeeze Gaza .

After Palestinian militants toppled the walls Wednesday, Mubarak said he'd directed his border guards to allow the Palestinians to cross into Egypt because they were starving.

"I told them to let them come in and eat and buy food and then return them later as long as they were not carrying weapons," Mubarak said while attending a book fair in Cairo .

Israeli officials voiced immediate concern that the porous border would allow Palestinian militants to spirit weapons and money into Gaza .

" Israel looks to Egypt to solve the problem," said Aryeh Mekel , a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry .
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Re: Gaza Palestinians topple border wall, pour into Egypt
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2008, 11:21:18 AM »
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Radical Palestinians urge more resistance against Israel
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Israel tightened months-long restrictions of the Gaza Strip last week, imposing a full-scale lockdown and halting all fuel shipments and even the entry of humanitarian aid, in a bid to stop Palestinian rocket attacks.


On Tuesday, Israel allowed in limited shipments of cooking gas and fuel for Gaza's sole power station, but the Palestinians have demanded a complete end to the blockade.

On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Gazans poured into Egypt to shop for basic needs after militants blew open gaps in the border wall.

**** the palestinians.
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Re: Gaza Palestinians topple border wall, pour into Egypt
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2008, 03:09:32 PM »
**** the palestinians.

I completely agree, however, it is going to be interesting to see what the Egyptians do with them, since they have eventually been tossed out of every other country that they have infested....

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Re: Gaza Palestinians topple border wall, pour into Egypt
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2008, 06:27:11 PM »
If the Palestinians think their lives sucked under the Israelis, just wait till they get a dose of the tender mercies of their "Arab brothers"
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