Kathianne
02-24-2008, 08:08 PM
Women & children at the front of the peaceful people:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24625786.htm
Israel prepares for mass protests at Gaza border
24 Feb 2008 17:59:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
JERUSALEM, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Israel has put paramilitary police on standby and boosted surveillance along the Gaza border in case Palestinians try to break through into Israel as they did in Egypt last month, security sources said on Sunday.
A pro-Hamas group said it would hold a peaceful protest on Monday in which it estimated that 40,000 to 50,000 women and children would form a "human chain" stretching the length of the Gaza Strip. Organisers said they had no intention of breaching the border.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli Defence Forces said: "The IDF is preparing based on reports from the Palestinian media." She declined to elaborate.
Israel became increasingly concerned after Hamas Islamists blew open Gaza's southern Rafah border wall with Egypt last month, and Hamas officials raised the possibility of similar breaches along the border with Israel.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians poured across the Rafah border breach into Egypt to stock up on goods in short supply in the coastal enclave because of an Israeli blockade....
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24625786.htm
Israel prepares for mass protests at Gaza border
24 Feb 2008 17:59:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
JERUSALEM, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Israel has put paramilitary police on standby and boosted surveillance along the Gaza border in case Palestinians try to break through into Israel as they did in Egypt last month, security sources said on Sunday.
A pro-Hamas group said it would hold a peaceful protest on Monday in which it estimated that 40,000 to 50,000 women and children would form a "human chain" stretching the length of the Gaza Strip. Organisers said they had no intention of breaching the border.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli Defence Forces said: "The IDF is preparing based on reports from the Palestinian media." She declined to elaborate.
Israel became increasingly concerned after Hamas Islamists blew open Gaza's southern Rafah border wall with Egypt last month, and Hamas officials raised the possibility of similar breaches along the border with Israel.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians poured across the Rafah border breach into Egypt to stock up on goods in short supply in the coastal enclave because of an Israeli blockade....