Palestininan Pilgrims and Hamas Sent To Camps in Sinai

This is like an extra Christmas present found lingering beneath the tree! LOL! As we reported here yesterday, the palestinian pilgrims (which included up to 1000 Hamas jihadists and leadership) that traveled to Saudi Arabia for the HajjFest, found out that Egypt would not let them cross back into Gaza through the loosely controlled border crossing at Rafah (which Israel has no control over). The Egyptians, listening to the Israelis concerns that the Hamas members were bringing back suitcases full of Saudi and Iranian cash, were forcing the pilgrims to enter Gaza through the Israeli-controlled crossing of Aouja.
Well, Hamas is all whining about this because they think they'll get their asses arrested by the Israelis as they enter through Aouja - that's what they are saying but of course the real story is they will lose all of their cash! So now Egypt finds itself in a tough spot and while trying to figure it all out, they've shipped the flea-bitten palestinians into camps in the Sinai. LOL! I love the thought of Hamas leaders sitting around a camp fire begging people for a can of beans.
Unfortunately, I think you'll see some European country offer up two worthless border inspectors for the Rafah crossing who will of course look the other way and let the cash into Gaza. At least I hope it takes a week or two to decide so the little boys from Hamas get a good dose of summer camp living.

Here's the full story.

Pilgrims Stuck in Egypt Taken to Camps

El-ARISH, Egypt (AP) - More than a thousand Palestinian pilgrims, including members of the militant Hamas group, were put in camps in the northern Sinai on Sunday until a dispute over how they will return to the Gaza Strip is resolved.
The Palestinians arrived in the Egyptian Red Sea port of Nuweiba in southern Sinai on Saturday after completing their pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. But they have refused Egypt's attempts to have them return to Gaza through the Israeli-controlled Aouja border crossing.
Israel fears that if the pilgrims are allowed to return to Gaza through the direct crossing from Egypt at Rafah—where Israel has no control and where European monitors are not working—Hamas militants might get through and sympathizers could smuggle cash to the Islamic group in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
But Egypt's attempts to force the pilgrims to use the Aouja crossing have outraged Hamas supporters in Gaza, who staged large-scale protests on Saturday. Hamas fears Israel will arrest its members at the crossing.
More than two dozen buses brought 1,166 Palestinians from Nuweiba to el-Arish, on the Mediterranean coast, 15 miles west of Rafah, the security official said.
Another ferry load of nearly 1,900 more Palestinians at Nuweiba will also be brought to el-Arish, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Egypt has set up 11 temporary camps in El-Arish to house the pilgrims until authorities come up with a solution to the current crisis, the official said.

Al-Jazeera television aired interviews with the pilgrims before they left Jordan in which they showed a paper Egypt allegedly asked them to sign saying they would to return to Gaza through Aouja.
Some 7,000 demonstrators gathered at the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing Saturday waving Palestinian and Hamas flags and demanding the pilgrims be allowed to enter.
Hamas lawmakers echoed these calls, saying Egypt has a moral obligation to bring the pilgrims home as quickly as possible by allowing them to cross through Rafah.