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Palestinians force their way into Egypt
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-16 21:33
Hundreds of Palestinians broke through Egyptian and
Palestinian Authority lines on the Gaza border Friday, pouring into Egypt in
defiance of government attempts to secure the frontier, the Associated Press
reported.
Egyptian border guards place barbed wire to prevent people
from crossing the border between the Rafah Refugee Camp in the southern
Gaza Strip and Egypt Friday, Sept. 16, 2005. Israel and the Palestinian
Authority have both said they fear al-Qaida terrorists will infiltrate
into Gaza through the open Gaza-Egypt border, where Palestinians and
Egyptians have been crossing largely unfettered since Israel withdrew from
the area on Monday. [AP] |
It was the second afternoon in a row that the crowd was able to overwhelm the
measures imposed in the morning to restore order on the Gaza-Egypt border, the
Palestinians' only outlet to the world that avoids Israel.
The surge started when Palestinians waiting to cross pelted their own
security forces with stones at the Saladin gate, the main informal crossing on
the border, in this border town. When the Palestinian security officials gave
way, the crowd pushed through the iron gateway and tackled the Egyptian police.
Policemen tried to beat the crowd back with sticks, but they were
overwhelmed, and hundreds of Palestinians entered Egypt.
Earlier Friday, Israel said the failure to control the flow of arms and
people across the frontier had severely undermined the credibility of the
Palestinian Authority.
"They look like they're running a system which has neither law nor order,
neither organization nor authority," Amos Gilad of the Defense Ministry's
diplomatic department told Israel Army Radio.
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