I was reading an article today about the Egyptian army destroying smuggling tunnels along the Gaza border. It seems that they take a bad view of extremists from Gaza flowing into the Sinai and causing unrest, culminating with the car bombing of of a security building in Rafah that killed six soldiers. While there are always shortages of critical supplies in Gaza such as food, medicine and fuel, they never seem to run out of rockets, bombs and bullets. Amazing. Still, a significant supply of materials comes through the tunnels since the border crossing only really allowed people with legitimate business across. Now that is cut off due to biting the hand that feeds. What I found really interesting was the picture on the slideshow (slide 22) of protesters at the border to protest the border crossing closure.
While it seems that they are short on food, medicine and fuel, they appear to have ample supplies for printing very clear, large professional signs for the protest. Of course the signs are held up by children for the most photogenic moment to gain sympathy. But I guess in the retaliatory strikes, Israel has managed to miss all of the local Kinko's locations. Which appear to still have supplies and power. Good to know they have their priorities straight in Gaza.
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