Gaza breakout into Israel next
A SENIOR Hamas official warned yesterday that the next breakout from the Gaza Strip could be into Israel, with 500,000 Palestinians attempting to march towards the towns and villages from which they or their parents fled or were expelled 60 years ago.

Mubarak pulls Eyptian border forces out of N. Sinai, Hamas gains territory
Announcing that Egypt would not expel the hundreds of thousands of Gazan Palestinians who continue to cross the broken border fence into N. Sinai, President Hosni Mubarak redeployed his special border force from the Gazan border to points south of El Arish, Bir Lahfan and Abu Aweigila. This step effectively handed over to the control of Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist organizations and al Qaedal a northernnorthern Sinai enclave of roughly 855 sq, km., twice the area of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.