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| Egyptian security forces deployed on border with Gaza |
| 2008-04-09 |
| Hope they remembered their leg breaking sticks... Gaza – Ma'an – Egyptian security forces have been deployed heavily along the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip fearing that Palestinians may force the border wall open again on Wednesday. Prediction? Much seething... Palestinian sources told Ma'an that the deployment, just 500 meters from the border, is unprecedented. The sources added that Palestinian factions have been announcing, over public address systems and local radio stations, that the humanitarian situation™ in Gaza is further deteriorating, resulting in shortages of food and medicine. Must be waiting until they've got enough counterfeit money printed up... Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt from the Gaza Strip in late January after the border was forced open. Gazans flocked to Egypt to shop for basic supplies made scarce by months of the Israeli blockade. Looks like the Gypos remembered how much fun that was. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #2 Methinks REDDIT + TOPIX are more concise > CAN TROUBLED EGYPT FEED THE PALESTINIANS? *REDDIT > VARIOUS - Egyptian protestors amgry over FOOD, FUEL-GAS, + BUDGET WOES, ETC. may number as high as 50,000, many of which are reportedly angrily, physically resisting Mubarak's security forces = crowd control??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-09 21:23 |
| #1 Palestinian witnesses in the Gaza Strip said they saw increased numbers of Egyptian security forces deployed on the border, including snipers on Rafah rooftops and police with dogs patrolling the frontier. Armoured personnel carriers could also be seen on the Egyptian side, the witnesses said. Egypt "will not take lightly the protection of its frontiers against any attempt to violate them, no matter who they are," the official MENA news agency quoted an official it did not identify as saying."Egypt's borders are a red line you cannot cross," the official said. "Egypt is capable of responding to any attempt to violate its frontiers." On Tuesday, Khalil al-Hayya, a senior member of Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip, said that "all options are open to break the siege" by Israel."I expect that what will happen next will be greater than what happened before, not only against the Egyptian border, but against all the crossings," Hayya said. The Egyptian foreign ministry issued a statement expressing "profound amazement" at the breach threats."These statements are unacceptable and in flagrant contradiction with efforts Egypt has made to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip and reach a truce allowing Palestinians from Gaza to live a normal life," it said."Any attempt to violate the sovereignty of Egypt's frontiers by force or ... illegally will be dealt with seriously and with appropriate firmness," it said, adding that any breach would damage the Palestinian cause. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-09 13:40 |