Palis Blow Up Gaza Barricades To Egypt, 350,000 Stream In For Supplies

So, Hamas...that blockade by Israel causing a little pain there in Gaza? Haha. A numbef of bombs were set off at walls and barricades leading from Gaza into Egypt allowing Gaza residents to stream into Egypt to purchase fuel and supplies. The Egyptians, at this point, have not tried to keep them out although at one crossing, they did use water cannons.
I guess the people living in Gaza might be realizing how their alliance with Hamas is panning out for them - they support Hamas missiles going into Israel, so they get to starve.
In the past, when Gazans have spilled over the Egyptian border, the Egyptians have eventually said "enough" and pushed them back and sealed the walls again - that should happen by sometime today - the Eyptians don't want to risk any of the scourge of Gaza taking root in their land.

Here's the full story.

UN: Some 350,000 Gazans stream into Egypt as militants blast border wall

Some 350,000 Palestinians poured out of Gaza and into Egypt early Wednesday, the United Nations said, after masked gunmen blew dozens of holes in the wall delineating the border. The Gazans rushed to purchase food, fuel, and other supplies made scarce by Israel's blockade of the Strip, after militants detonated 17 bombs in the early morning hours, destroying some two-thirds of the metal wall separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt. Hamas did not take responsibility for knocking the border wall down, but Hamas militants quickly took control of the frontier, as Egyptian border guards took no action.

The destruction of the border continued later Wednesday morning. Palestinians driving a Caterpillar bulldozer arrived at a point where the frontier is marked by a low concrete wall topped with barbed wire, tearing down the wall and opening a gap to allow easier access for cars. Palestinians have breached the Egypt-Gaza border several times since Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. In the past, Egyptian security forces restored order after hours or days. Hamas police channeled the crowds through two sections of the border, and inspected some bags, confiscating seven pistols carried by one man returning to Gaza.

Security sources told Haaretz on Tuesday that Israel intends to keep the crossings into the Gaza Strip permanently closed except when it is necessary to provide for emergency humanitarian needs. This new policy will allow the transfer of sufficient aid and materials to the Palestinians to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and minimize international criticism, "but so long as the rocket attacks continue there will not be a situation in which one hundred trucks a day cross into the Strip," a security source said.