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Hamas gearing to 'explode' out of Gaza into Egypt


By Stan Goodenough
April 15, 2008

The "Palestinian" terror group Hamas is preparing to explode out of the Gaza Strip, blowing up the border fence with Egypt and shooting any Egyptian forces that get in their way.

This is according to the Egyptian daily, Al-Ahram, which Monday quoted "reliable" but unnamed "Palestinian sources" as saying that Hamas clerics had issued a special "fatwa" (sanction or command) making it "permissible" to kill any Egyptian soldiers who tried to stop them.

The Jerusalem Post picked up and published the story Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday afternoon Israel is preparing for a "Palestinian" breakout.

Hamas has already planted bombs along a four kilometer stretch of the border, according to the Al-Ahram report, which will be detonated at the same time as Hamas fires mortars into Egypt and fires directly into Egyptian troops.

Members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood are preparing to help Hamas carry out its "blast and invade" strategy that will see hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs flooding the Sinai, as they did back in January.

The primary aim of the invasion is apparently to drive home the "desperate suffering" of Gaza's Arabs and thereby shake the rest of the international community into turning up pressure on Israel, forcing it to end its "siege" of Gaza.

Israel has imposed a partial and periodic embargo on Gaza to try and bring an end to the terrorism that has seen thousands of rockets fired from the Strip against Israeli communities in the south.

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