Thousands in breakout from Gaza blockade.
The Daily Mirror – Thursday January 24th 2008
Photojournalist – Suhaib Salem
Headline – Thousands in breakout from Gaza blockade.
Starving Palestinians pour through a breach in a fence in defiance of Israel yesterday. The week-long blockade of Gaza pushed people to breaking point and militants blew open a 200-yard stretch on the border with Egypt.
Tens of thousands passed through on foot or with donkeys and carts to buy food and provisions scarce at home. Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak said he told police near the southern Gaza town of Rafah to let them in as the Palestinians were starving. He said: “They were allowed to eat and buy food and then return, as long as they were not carrying weapons.”
Egypt had supported Israeli moves to tighten the blockade to counter rocket attacks from within Gaza.
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