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Let’s check in on the Middle East Process:

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http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/23/video-hamas-storms-across-gaza-wall-into-egypt/

“Video: Hamas storms across Gaza wall into Egypt Update”
POSTED AT 10:48 AM ON JANUARY 23, 2008 BY BRYAN

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hamas

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019679.php
(TIMES ONLINE co.uk)

January 23, 2008

“Hamas ‘spent months cutting through Gaza wall in secret operation’”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hamas, which took control of the coastal territory last June after a stand-off with Fatah, has denied that its men set off the explosions that brought down as much as two-thirds of the 12-km wall in the early hours.

But a Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border today admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches.

That meant that when the explosive charges were set off in 17 different locations after midnight last night the 40ft wall came tumbling down, leaving it lying like a broken concertina down the middle of no-man’s land as an estimated 350,000 Gazans flooded into Egypt.

The guard, Lieutenant Abu Usama of the Palestinian National Security, said of the cutting operation: “I’ve seen this happening over the last few months. It happened in the daytime but was covered up so that nobody would see.”

Asked whether he had reported it to the government, he replied: “It was the government that was doing this. Who would I report it to?”

Abu Usama, who normally works from a small guard cabin in no-man’s land, added: “Last night we were told to keep away from the wall. We were ordered to stay away because they were going to break the blockade.””

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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_220108e.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
January 22, 2008

“Closing the crossings into the Gaza Strip and renewing the fuel supply –
the situation on the ground as of noon, January 22, 2008.”