Hamas carefully prepared the demolition of the wall demarcating the Gaza Strip from Egypt.(The Week)(Brief article)

Hamas carefully prepared the demolition of the wall demarcating the Gaza Strip from Egypt. Taking everyone by surprise, hundreds of thousands of Gazans swarmed across. Even more surprising, they proved not to be the poverty-stricken folk of politically motivated myth, but bought everything for sale in Egyptian shops--cars, bikes, cattle, provisions--raising local prices and making themselves even more unpopular than they already were. Israeli sources claim that Hamas members also carried in better and heavier military equipment than had previously been at their disposal, and that gangs dispersed into the ...