In a nonviolent act, hundreds of Palestinian children gathered on Wednesday afternoon near the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt carrying plastic saws and hammers and symbolically attempted to demolish the wall in a move that shows their rejection of the siege imposed on Gaza. [Extend]

Hamás impulsa la construcción de 1.500 túneles hasta suelo egipcio para burlar el bloqueo israelí - Los precios vuelven a ser asequibles en la franja [Extend]

Israel exporta su tecnología de guarda fronteras. Via Ana Valdes [Extend]

Tunnels used to bring essential goods into the besieged Gaza Strip from Egypt are being bombed by Israel in its current assault on the territory.

Israel says the tunnels are used to arm Hamas and other factions.
Amr El-Kahky meets one of the men in Egypt making a living from Gaza's tunnel economy. [Extend]

link via Josep Saldaña from Barcelona

The Hamas party in Gaza was able to put some dents into the Israeli mechanism of exploitation. By breaking through the fence to Rafah in early 2008, and later by importing goods from Egypt via underground tunnels to supplement the diet of beleaguered Gazans under siege, Hamas has been able to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip without paying customs to Israel. The goods, coming from Egyptian merchants, have become an unofficial import channel into the Israeli-controlled customs envelope, a channel through which Israeli foreign currency escapes (because Egyptian merchants are paid by Gazans, with Israeli currency, which is then exchanged for foreign currency from the Central Bank of Israel). [Extend]

An activist group says it will send a boat with doctors and medical aid to Gaza this weekend, despite the Israeli blockade.
The Free Gaza movement said Wednesday that the Greek-flagged Arion will leave the Cypriot port of Larnaca Saturday with 30 passengers and more than three tons of aid.
Last week, Israeli forces prevented a similar mission from reaching Gaza during the 12th day of the operation in Gaza. Free Gaza says the Israeli navy rammed and heavily damaged the SS Dignity, while Israel maintains the boat tried to outmaneuver a navy vessel and crashed into it.
Free Gaza has made five boat deliveries of aid to Gaza since August, defying the blockade Israel imposed when Hamas won control of the territory in 2007 [Extend]

A lo largo de los últimos 20 años se han abierto túneles entre las fronteras más calientes del planeta. Por ejemplo, entre México y Estados Unidos: tras la gran operación iniciada en 1994 para levantar un poderoso dique a la inmigración mexicana hacia el gran vecino del norte, se han descubierto alrededor de 70 túneles a lo largo de esa frontera. Otro ejemplo: los sótanos de la franja de Gaza, perforados por multitud de túneles a lo largo de la frontera con Egipto, ahora bombardeados por la aviación israelí. Y un tercero: los boat peoples que se lanzan incansables desde las costas africanas hacia Canarias, el sur de Italia y Grecia. La proliferación de tecnologías contra el paso ilegal de las ... [Extend]

Interview Fida Qishta, Rafah, Gaza, 2 January 2009, 11 p m [Extend]

Demolishing houses to build the wall [Extend]

22 Jan 08 [Extend]