Rehmat
01-23-2008, 12:42 PM
Tens of thousands of Palestinians poured from the Gazzah into Egypt today after masked gunmen with explosives demolished most of the seven-mile wall dividing the border town of Rafah.
The people crossed on foot, in cars or riding donkey carts to buy supplies made scarce by the Usrael blockade of their impoverished territory. Police from elected government of Hamas directed the traffic. Egyptian border guards took no action.
The Zionist government official, fearing the failure of their Nazi tactics against 1.5 million native Muslim and Christian Palestinians living in Gazzah - have complained that Islamic Resistance Hamas could use the opening of the border to bring weapons and ammunition into Gazzah.
The gunmen began breaching the wall dividing Rafah before dawn, according to witnesses and Hamas officials. A total of 17 explosions destroyed the Rafah wall Wednesday, Hamas security officials said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said they were allowing Palestinians to move freely through two gaps.
The identity of the gunmen who breached the border was not immediately clear. But Hamas expressed support for the move, saying that, "Blowing up the border wall with Egypt is a reflection of the catastrophic situation which the Palestinian people in Gazzah are living through due to the blockade.''
The destruction continued as Palestinians used a bulldozer to tear down a section of low concrete wall topped with barbed wire to allow easier access for cars.
Guards directed the crowds over the fallen metal through two main crossing areas, inspecting some bags. One man returning to Gaza carried seven pistols that were confiscated by Hamas police. Others walked unhindered over the piles of scrap metal that once made up the border wall.
Gazan Ibrahim Abu Taha, 45, a father of seven, was in the Egyptian section of Rafah with his two brothers and $185 in his pocket. "We want to buy food, we want to buy rice and sugar, milk and wheat and some cheese," Abu Taha said in a telephone interview, adding that he would also buy cheap Egyptian cigarettes.
Gazzah had been cut off from the world under Usrael pressure since June, when Hamas made pro-Usrael Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah militant group - and Gazans are facing critical shortages of electricity, fuel and other supplies.
Egypt has largely kept its border with Gazzah closed since the Hamas takeover, under its ‘peace with Israel’ responsibility for the safety of Zionist-regime.
Governments, aid agencies and the U.N. have issued urgent appeals for an end to the Zionists’ closure of Gazzah. (The associated Press)
The people crossed on foot, in cars or riding donkey carts to buy supplies made scarce by the Usrael blockade of their impoverished territory. Police from elected government of Hamas directed the traffic. Egyptian border guards took no action.
The Zionist government official, fearing the failure of their Nazi tactics against 1.5 million native Muslim and Christian Palestinians living in Gazzah - have complained that Islamic Resistance Hamas could use the opening of the border to bring weapons and ammunition into Gazzah.
The gunmen began breaching the wall dividing Rafah before dawn, according to witnesses and Hamas officials. A total of 17 explosions destroyed the Rafah wall Wednesday, Hamas security officials said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said they were allowing Palestinians to move freely through two gaps.
The identity of the gunmen who breached the border was not immediately clear. But Hamas expressed support for the move, saying that, "Blowing up the border wall with Egypt is a reflection of the catastrophic situation which the Palestinian people in Gazzah are living through due to the blockade.''
The destruction continued as Palestinians used a bulldozer to tear down a section of low concrete wall topped with barbed wire to allow easier access for cars.
Guards directed the crowds over the fallen metal through two main crossing areas, inspecting some bags. One man returning to Gaza carried seven pistols that were confiscated by Hamas police. Others walked unhindered over the piles of scrap metal that once made up the border wall.
Gazan Ibrahim Abu Taha, 45, a father of seven, was in the Egyptian section of Rafah with his two brothers and $185 in his pocket. "We want to buy food, we want to buy rice and sugar, milk and wheat and some cheese," Abu Taha said in a telephone interview, adding that he would also buy cheap Egyptian cigarettes.
Gazzah had been cut off from the world under Usrael pressure since June, when Hamas made pro-Usrael Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah militant group - and Gazans are facing critical shortages of electricity, fuel and other supplies.
Egypt has largely kept its border with Gazzah closed since the Hamas takeover, under its ‘peace with Israel’ responsibility for the safety of Zionist-regime.
Governments, aid agencies and the U.N. have issued urgent appeals for an end to the Zionists’ closure of Gazzah. (The associated Press)