Israel:
Massive Security Forces Mobilized
To Prevent Gazans From
Bum Rushing Border
Monday, February 25, 2008
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JPOST.com brings us this report today and it starts off like this... In preparation for a large-scaled Palestinian protest march planned for Gaza on Monday, security forces mobilized along the security fence Sunday night in an effort to head off a replay of last month's Rafah border-storming at the Erez or Kissufim crossings... An artillery battery was moved to the Gaza border for the first time in months, and rules of engagement were reviewed as troops prepared for the demonstration Hamas is calling a "human chain."...
Read the rest HERE
* IsraelNationalNews.com reports it this way...
The defense establishment in Israel is preparing for possible Hamas mass-marches towards Israel... Sources in the defense network say Hamas might try to turn its scheduled human-
chain event on Monday night into a rush on the border fence between Gaza and Israel. The IDF is preparing for this eventuality, though it does not consider the chances of it happening as high...
Hamas Plans Mass-March
* YNETNews.com has the report...
“Israel will defend its territory and prevent an infiltration of its sovereign borders,” acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday in a joint statement issued evening before Hamas-organized mass protest in the Gaza Strip...
Livni: Israel will defend its sovereign borders
* DEBKAfile...
Beefed-up Israeli military and security forces prepared to repulse thousands of Palestinians planning to crash the full length of the Gazan-Israeli border and its crossings at 10:00 a.m. IT Monday, Feb. 25...
Palestinians plan mass rush on Gazan-Israeli border Monday
JPOST.com brings us this report today and it starts off like this... In preparation for a large-scaled Palestinian protest march planned for Gaza on Monday, security forces mobilized along the security fence Sunday night in an effort to head off a replay of last month's Rafah border-storming at the Erez or Kissufim crossings... An artillery battery was moved to the Gaza border for the first time in months, and rules of engagement were reviewed as troops prepared for the demonstration Hamas is calling a "human chain."...
Read the rest HERE
* IsraelNationalNews.com reports it this way...
The defense establishment in Israel is preparing for possible Hamas mass-marches towards Israel... Sources in the defense network say Hamas might try to turn its scheduled human-
chain event on Monday night into a rush on the border fence between Gaza and Israel. The IDF is preparing for this eventuality, though it does not consider the chances of it happening as high...Hamas Plans Mass-March
* YNETNews.com has the report...
“Israel will defend its territory and prevent an infiltration of its sovereign borders,” acting Prime Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday in a joint statement issued evening before Hamas-organized mass protest in the Gaza Strip...
Livni: Israel will defend its sovereign borders
* DEBKAfile...
Beefed-up Israeli military and security forces prepared to repulse thousands of Palestinians planning to crash the full length of the Gazan-Israeli border and its crossings at 10:00 a.m. IT Monday, Feb. 25...
Palestinians plan mass rush on Gazan-Israeli border Monday
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Archive Photo by IDF Spokesperson
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Updates:
Monday, February 25, 2008
Updates:
Monday, February 25, 2008
* IsraelToday.co.il has this report out, this late morning, and it sums today’s Demonstration up fairly well...
Thousands of Israeli police and soldiers were deployed to the northern border of the Gaza Strip on Monday fearing a planned mass gathering of Palestinians would lead to an attempt to breach the security fence and enter southern Israel... In the end, however, a mere 5,000 out of an expected 40,000 Palestinians showed up...
Read the rest at link below...
Nightmare avoided at Gaza border
* UKPress.google.com reports today’s Demonstration this way...
Gaza border protest fizzles out
> Title says it all, I think!
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Note: I’ll update this post later today if needed
Note: I’ll update this post later today if needed
AubreyJ.........
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