On Friday late a night the Palestinian resistance
fighters and civilians living in Gaza breached a section of the
iron wall surrounding the Gaza Strip after Egyptian troops
closed a previous breach in the wall on Friday afternoon.
Last Wednesday at dawn the Palestinian resistance
destroyed part of the wall at the southern part of the strip
at the borders with Egypt using five home made bombs,
shortly afterwards thousands of Palestinians rushed through
to buy food and fuel supplies from Egypt to bring back
to the isolated Gaza Strip.
For the days followed the Egyptian government
allowed Palestinian to continue shopping in Egypt and
come back to the Coastal Region.
The United Stats of America and Israeli slammed
Egypt for the move and said that the Palestinian
resistance will enter Gaza from Egypt.
Israeli threatened to step-up attacks on the coastal
region and stop water from coming into Gaza.
The Egyptian president said to reporters on
Thursday that he will allow the Palestinian to get their
supplies from Egypt as long as there is a humanitarian
crisis in the region.
Two weeks ago the Israeli government decided to keep
pressure on the Gaza Strip by further attacking
Palestinian resistance groups. On Friday Israel
declared all Gaza's crossings completely closed, with
a total ban of fuel and supplies to the coastal region.
By Sunday Gaza had no electricity as the Solo Gaza
power plant depends on Israeli Fuel.
On Friday afternoon the Egyptian government
announced it would close the crossing. Shortly after
Egyptian troops sealed the borders and attacked the
Palestinians civilians their using rite shields batons and
water cannon, 22 Palestinians were injured, Palestinian
sources reported, Egyptian Media said that 6 policemen
were hurt when angry civilians responded by throwing
stones at the Egyptian troops.
Later in the Evening Palestinian resistance fighters and
civilians smashed a new hole in the Rafah Egypt border
Wall using a bulldozer, Egyptian troops polled back and
allowed Palestinian to inter Egypt again.
The Egyptian government decided to reseal the
borders rafter it had been heavily criticized by
Western powers. The US congress suspended on
Friday $100 million of aid to Egypt for allowing the
Palestinians to get into Egypt to get food to survive.
Limited clashes between Palestinians and
Egyptian forces near the Rafah border
Palestinian gunmen shot dead five police dogs and injured
an Egyptian police officer on Friday evening in skirmishes
between Egyptian border guards and Palestinians near the
toppled border walls at the Rafah crossing.
One Palestinian was also injured.
Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that a number of Palestinians
hurled stones at Egyptian forces, injuring five of them.
The Egyptian forces redeployed at some distance from
the toppled borders to avoid casualties on both sides as
thousands of Gaza Strip citizens flooded towards the
Egyptian territories.
Earlier a Palestinian bulldozer had overrun a barbed wire
fence and demolished parts of the wall separating the Gaza
Strip and Egypt on Friday afternoon. Egyptian forces fired
gunshots into the air as well as tear gas canisters in order
to disperse the crowds.
Palestinian medical sources told Ma'an that several people
suffering from the effects of tear gas received medical
treatment at Abu Yousif Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah.
On Wednesday Egyptian security forces stood and
watched as tens of thousands of Palestinians crossed
the border into Egypt after masked Palestinian
fighters destroyed a portion of the border wall
between Egypt and the Gaza Strip using explosives.
On Thursday Palestinians from the besieged coastal
region again made for the shops in the Egyptian town
of Al-Arish, buying up food supplies, as well as livestock,
electrical equipment and cell phones. Cigarettes and
cement were also high on their list of purchases.
Most of the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million residents had been
trapped inside the Gaza Strip since the Israeli occupation
government closed the Gaza Strip border crossings in
June, following the Hamas takeover.
The BBC reported that the UN estimates
that as much as half of the population of Gaza
has crossed the border into Egypt during the
past four days.
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