Tearing down the Wall - many blasts tear down the Israeli built

Egyptian wall for the desperate people in search of food:

 

 

Palestinians cross the border after militants exploded the separated wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

 

 

 Masked Palestinian gunmen breached the Gaza-Egypt border wall Wednesday, and thousands of Gazans trapped in their territory by a tight blockade poured into Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have become scarce.

 

 Egyptian border guards and Hamas police took no action as Palestinians hurried over the border and began returning with bags of food, boxes of cigarettes and plastic bottles of fuel.(AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Jubilant men and women crossed unhindered by border controls over toppled corrugated metal along sections of the barrier, carrying goats, chickens and crates of Coca-Cola. Some brought back televisions, car tires and cigarettes and one man even bought a motorcycle. Vendors sold soft drinks and baked goods to the crowds.
 
They were stocking up on goods made scarce by the Israeli blockade and within hours, shops on the Egyptian side of Rafah had run out of most of their wares. The border fence had divided the Rafah into two halves, one on the Egyptian side and one in southern Gazan.
 
Ibrahim Abu Taha, 45, a Palestinian 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, adding that he would also get some cheap Egyptian cigarettes. He said he could get the food in Gaza, but at three times the price.
 
Police from the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, directed the traffic. Egyptian border guards took no action and imposed no border controls on those who crossed.
 
"Freedom is good. We need no border after today," said unemployed 29-year-old Mohammed Abu Ghazal.
 
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told reporters in Cairo his border guards originally had forced the Gazans back on Tuesday when they tried to cross.
 
"But today, a great number of them came back because the Palestinians in Gaza are starving due to the Israeli siege," he said.
 
No starvation has been reported in Gaza. But many of the 1.5 million residents have faced critical shortages of electricity, fuel and other supplies over months because Gaza has been virtually sealed since Hamas seized control of the territory by force from the rival Fatah faction in June.
 
"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," President  Mubarak said. 
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7205668.stm

 

Deep sympathy

Earlier Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he had let the Gazans in.

He said he had told his troops to "let them come to eat and buy food and go back, as long as they are not carrying weapons".

The BBC's Heba Saleh in Cairo says Egypt has little choice but to welcome the influx, as there is deep public sympathy for the Palestinians.

Egypt can only hope Israel will ease its restrictions, she adds.

A total of 350,000 Gazans crossed the Egyptian border, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported. Hamas has not taken responsibility for breaching the border but quickly moved in to police it, the paper said, confiscating seven pistols from a man returning to Gaza.

 

Sounds almost like a Jail Break to me: More Power to them!!!!