Angry over the killing of a colleague, Palestinian policemen yesterday stormed the Rafah crossing point in the Gaza Strip and forced its closure for much of the day. The unarmed European Union observers — responsible for enforcing the terms of the Israeli-Palestinian agreement that opened the border last month — fled to a nearby Israeli military base.
Gaza has experienced a wave of shootouts, kidnappings and armed takeovers of government buildings in recent months, undermining Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ efforts to impose law and order in the wake of Israel’s withdrawal from the area last September. Two days after the abduction of three Britons, the police were completely in the dark about their whereabouts or the identity of their kidnappers.
(Those hostages were released yesterday.)
Just a real mess. These are the same people who one day could be in charge of, nominally I guess, of the West Bank.
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