Thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are crossing into Egypt for a fourth day since militants destroyed a border barricade Wednesday.
For the first time, hundreds of vehicles crossed into Egypt Saturday, after a group of militants used a bulldozer to open a new section of the barrier.
On Friday, Egyptian border guards fired water cannons over the crowd but failed to stop hundreds of Palestinians from passing through the crossing.
Palestinians are crossing the border to buy goods made scarce by a blockade Israel imposed on the Gaza Strip last week in response to Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
An Israeli spokesman says he is concerned the militant Hamas party, which controls Gaza, will use the open border to smuggle terrorists and weapons.
In another development, Israeli police shot and wounded a Palestinian man who stabbed an Israeli border policeman at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Israeli medical workers say the incident happened near Jerusalem at an area Israel calls Atarot, and the Palestinian refer to as Qalandia.
Source: By VOA News
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