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  From 18-21 January, no food, medicine or fuel entered the Gaza Strip Power cuts, which were frequent prior to 19 January, were extended in duration to 12 hours per day everywhere in Gaza except Rafah The electricity shortage led to at least 40 percent of Gazans being denied access to running water and a…

      Preparations begin to close Rafah crossing 28 Jan 08 Gazans make new border wall hole Egyptian police appeared not to intervene when the bulldozer came “Palestinians have bulldozed down part of the Gaza-Egypt border wall again, hours after Egyptian troops blocked holes recently made by militants.” read full report Watch BBC news…

Joel Beinin of Jewish Voice for Peace writes from Cairo, Jan. 24: About 3:00 AM on Wednesday morning Jan. 23, well-coordinated explosions demolished the iron wall built by Israel to seal the southern border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt (the Philadelphi axis). Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed across the border and entered the…

by Jeff Halper  24 January 2008  The people of Palestinian have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own “moderate” political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community in their struggle for freedom. Early this morning they simply blew up the wall separating Gaza from Egypt,…