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GI SPECIAL 6A18

Gaza: This Is What Liberation Looks Like

We Feel A Little More Free Today.
It's A Good Thing For The Gazans To Be Able To Breathe

An Egyptian soldier, left, makes no effort to stop Palestinians from Gaza flooding across the border with Egypt, breaking the Zionist siege.

Jan 23 By IBRAHIM BARZAK
Associated Press Writer [Excerpts]

On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blown up by militants puncturing a gaping hole in Israel's airtight closure
of the Gaza Strip and giving a boost to Hamas.

In a shopping spree that was both festive and frenzied, Gazans cleared out stores in an Egyptian border town, buying up everything from TV sets to soft drinks to cigarettes.

As waves of people swarmed through the destroyed barrier -- some estimated the crowd in the hundreds of thousands -- Egyptian security forces lined up on one side of the border and Hamas forces lined up on the other side.

None of them interfered in any way, and it appeared Hamas militants actively participated in the border breach.

A Transformative Moment Of Respect
An Egyptian riot police hand signals respect for liberated Palestinians at the breached border between Rafah, southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, Jan. 27, 2008.
(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)