Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defence minister said on Thursday.
Israel, which occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967, pulled troops and settlers out in 2005 but still controls its northern and eastern borders, airspace and coastal waters, and has imposed a blockade it says is meant to counter militant rocket fire.
Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai said Israel wanted to wash its hands of Gaza altogether by handing over the supply of electricity, water and medicine to others. An Israeli security official said Egypt should take over responsibility.
"We need to understand that when Gaza is open to the other side we lose responsibility for it. So we want to disconnect from it," Vilnai said.
Thousands of Gazans poured into Egypt yesterday to buy "everything from olive oil to mattresses, from cement to computers".
Militants blew a hole in the border fence separating the overcrowded Gaza Strip and Egypt and the population, deprived of goods by an Israeli blockade intended to put a stop to Hamas rocket attacks, took advantage.
"I don't know who did it," one "cheerful" Gazan taxi driver tells the Independent.
"He was returning from Egypt finally in possession of the means of earning the livelihood a seven-month Israeli blockade had gradually denied him: tyres, car batteries, diesel and spare parts, costing some $1,300 (£650)."
One Israeli official told the Herald Tribune that the breach might be a "blessing in disguise" because it would "ease tremendously the pressure on Israel on the humanitarian level ...
"We don't care if people buy food in Egypt. And terrorists come in anyway." He went on to raise the possibility that Israel would "get out of Gaza and throw away the keys".
Some of that pressure comes from the New York Times, which says the Israeli blockade was only ever going to "feed anger and extremism". And who does it urge to sort out the problem? One Tony Blair, currently in Davos.
"The former British prime minister who is now the western envoy for Palestinian economic development, needs to come up with an aid strategy that ensures Gazans aren't forced to suffer - without rewarding Hamas," says the paper.
"If you bottle up 1.5 million people in a territory 25 miles long and six miles wide, and turn off the lights, as Israel has done in Gaza, the bottle will burst," says the Guardian. "Once again the strategic goal of a two-state solution is obscured by the fog of war."
The Israeli state, with the complete backing of the imperialists of the U.S. and the European Union, as well as their clients among the corrupt feudal monarchs in the region, has deprived the entire Palestinian population in Gaza of electricity, sanitation, potable water, heat, cooking gas, medicines and adequate food.
And it is winter in Palestine. Nothing has been done to end this crime against humanity, this collective punishment of the Palestinian people, despite many appeals to international agencies and organizations.
With no other choice available, the Palestinian masses and their organizations on Jan. 23 took their destiny into their own hands by blowing up, tearing down and eliminating the fence between Gaza and Egypt.
The Israelis built the fence to enforce their illegal occupation. But the Palestinian people have once again given an example of how, by mass, courageous action, a mobilized population can turn the tables on the most heavily armed state in the region, backed by the world’s biggest armed power.
More than 350,000 Palestinians—about 20 percent of the entire population of Gaza—surged over the fence past the Egyptian Army to buy desperately needed supplies.
Faced with this mass uprising, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt ordered his border guards to stand down, even though Washington has demanded that Egypt block the border and enforce the strangulation blockade or lose its military aid.
The Palestinians then returned to Gaza and their struggle for liberation. The heroic Palestinian popular movement has once again proved stronger and more determined than its oppressors.
This dramatic and audacious act by the Palestinian people deserves the support of progressive people and especially of anti-imperialists all over the world.
Workers World calls upon its readers wherever they are to join the solidarity demonstrations called in their cities and countries and stand with the Palestinian people of Gaza against the Israeli war criminals and their imperialist backers in Washington and Brussels.
Liberation!
Like a volcano erupting, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian in desperation broke down the siege of Gaza Strip with their bare hands, to let their people breathe the air of liberation.
In a reply regarding the events by the Rafah border crossing a spokesman of the Ehud Olmert ministry said: "Because of Egyptian failure to stop the human flood of Palestinians into Egypt - it's time for the Israelis to stop sending fuel and gasoline to the Gaza Strip !
An estimated 350,000 Palestinians crossed over into Egypt from Gaza Strip since the border wall was breached shortly before dawn on Wednesday - the number could be even higher possibly half a million people.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians crossed the border into Egypt on Wednesday after masked members of the Palestinian resistance ( God bless you) used explosives successfully destroying some hundred meters of the border wall between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians stranded for months on the Egyptian side of the border returned back into the Gaza Strip.
A majority of the 1.5 million residents have been trapped inside the Gaza Strip since the Israelis with the support of the Zionist Lobby in Washington closed the Gaza Strip's border crossings in June last year.
On Tuesday many Palestinian women were injured when Egyptian police blocked the crowd from breaking through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
On Wednesday the Gazans stocked supplies from Egyptian stores in the border town of Al-Arish and Gaza Strip. Merchants used their trucks to help people return to the Gaza Strip, carrying medicine, food, clothes, tobacco and basic stationary supplies.
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