A number of Israeli military vehicles entered the Gaza Strip on Monday morning along the eastern border with Israel to level posts that had been reinforced with sandbags, and to burn down piles of tires before the Arab mob had a chance to do it during the planned day of mass-rioting. Four IDF bulldozers destroyed sandbags that the Arabs had piled up as protection from sniper fire.
According to Ma’an, the four Israeli military bulldozers entered the outskirts of the town of Khuza’a east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and initiated the razing of the fortifications. Israeli forces opened fire and threw tear gas canisters during an incursion into al-Awda refugee camp, burning down massive piles of tires which had been assembled for a more opportune burn schedule later in the day.
At the same time, eight military vehicles, accompanied by a foot patrol, entered the Gaza Strip east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. The soldiers supported the vehicles in the construction of a security fence adjacent to the protest camp, supported from above by Israeli aircraft.
The Israeli forces moved east of Rafah to the southern part of the Gaza Strip and east of Al Bureij.
The incursion comes on the morning of Arab commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel on Friday, May 14, 1948, later dubbed the “Nakba” or catastrophe. Of course, only a few months earlier, on November 29, 1947, the Arabs rejected a UN offer to have their own state, if only they accepted a Jewish State next door.
They really haven’t advanced much in 70 years.