at Sufa Crossing. Hamas arranged the crowd after Friday prayers. Hamas tests Israeli nerves with the provocations which emulate recent border breach with Egypt in Rafah. Hamas wants to see what would Israel do about hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians chanting anti-Israeli slogans and marching through the border on Jewish towns.
So far, the IDF is authorized to use live ammunition, and 7 Arabs reported wounded. Their small number suggests being wounded in the crowd rather than by Israeli fire.
No country would dream to allow the population of hostile territory, practically at war, to cross unimpeded. The Road Map peace plan requires unimpeded movement between Gaza and the West Bank for Arabs, inundating Israel with terrorists and effectively cutting the Jewish state into two parts.