Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Thousands of Palestinians Arrested Trying To Reach Cairo


Hahaha! You know, the whole irony of this Egyptian/Gaza border fiasco is this. Weeks ago, Egypt's President Mubarak felt sorry for the poor palestinians sitting in the border camps when they wouldn't cross back into Gaza using the Israeli-monitored crossing. Mubarak risked a deterioration of relations with Israel by letting those palestinians back into Gaza with their bags of money through the other border crossing. Mubarak called it a humanitarian act. And now, Mubarak is repayed with Hamas blowing up his border wall, by tens of thousands of palestinians flowing into his country to raise havoc, and now, more than a 3000 palestinians had to be arrested as they stayed in Egypt and tried to reach the city of Cairo.
Oh...and a number of the palestinians arrested had weapons and explosives.
You get it now, Mubarak? You understand now why the Israelis will have nothing to do with this congregation of misfits? Good luck on trying to get rid of them Mubarak - it's like a virus that's entered an unprotected body. Like I say, good luck.

Full story is here.


Egypt: Thousands of Palestinians arrested trying to reach Cairo

Cairo, 28 Jan. (AKI) - Egyptian Police have arrested three thousand Palestinians attempting to reach Cairo, following the breaking of the border wall separating the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with Egypt.Following six days of Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, which prevented Gazans from obtaining food, fuel, medical and other supplies, on 23 January militants exploded holes in the border wall.Egyptian government newspaper al-Ahram reported that some of the arrested Palestinians were in possession of firearms and explosives.To prevent Palestinians without travel documents and visas from entering and settling in Egypt, the government has issued notices to hotels in the Sinai peninsula informing them not to host Gazans that had entered illegally into Egypt

Egyptian police initially took no action to stop the massive influx of Gazans into the Egyptian town of Rafah to buy basic items, although on Sunday, specially deployed Egyptian police officers forced shopkeepers in the city of el-Arish to close their shops to prevent Palestinians from Gaza shopping in the city, reported the Israeli daily Haaretz.

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