Gaza Wall Tumbles

Egyptian border guards and riot police officers clash with Palestinians trying to cross the border after militants blasted the border wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt earlier this week, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. Border guards formed human chains to hinder the flow of Gazans into Egypt in an attempt to gradually reseal the breached border, but thousands managed to sneak through other openings.

Egyptian border guards and riot police officers clash with Palestinians trying to cross the border after militants blew up the wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt earlier this week, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. Border guards formed human chains to hinder the flow of Gazans into Egypt in an attempt to gradually reseal the breached border, but thousands managed to sneak through other openings.

Egyptian border guards and riot police officers prevent Palestinians from crossing the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008.

A Palestinian man carries full canisters of fuel across a section of the destroyed border wall between Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, as he returns to Gaza, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Egypt is telling the U.S. that it expects the massive exodus of Palestinians from Gaza to end Thursday, but a U.S. official says Egypt hasn't said exactly when the flow will be cut off.

Palestinian men carrying empty gasoline containers jump over a wall reinforced by barbed wire as they cross the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Egyptian border guards began trying to control the mass of Palestinians flooding across the border for a second day Thursday, stopping some from moving deeper into Egypt, but not attempting to reseal the border.

Egyptian riot police scuffle with Palestinians who crossed the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in Rafah, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Egyptian border guards began trying to control the masses of Palestinians flooding across the border for a second day Thursday, stopping some from moving deeper into Egypt, but not attempting to reseal the border.

An injured Egyptian border army officer is assisted after scuffling with Palestinians who crossed the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, Egypt Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Egyptian border guards began trying to control the masses of Palestinians flooding across the border for a second day Thursday, stopping some from moving deeper into Egypt, but not attempting to reseal the border.

A bulldozer destroys part of the wall along the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip as Palestinians cross into Egypt, in Rafah, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Masked Palestinian gunmen blew holes into the Gaza-Egypt border wall Wednesday, and thousands of Gazans trapped in their territory by a tight blockade poured into Egypt to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have become scarce.

A bulldozer destroys part of a border wall as Palestinians wait to cross the border into Egypt after militants exploded the separated wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Egyptian border guards and Hamas police took no action as Palestinians hurried over the border and began returning with bags of food, boxes of cigarettes and plastic bottles of fuel.

A bulldozer destroys part of a border wall as Palestinians cross the border into Egypt after militants exploded the separated wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Palestinians cross the border into Egypt after militants blew a hole in the wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Palestinians cross the border into Egypt, top left, following a series of explosions by militants along the wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Thousands of Palestinians cross the border from the Gaza Strip into the Egyptian side of Rafah following a series of explosions by militants along the wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Palestinians cross the border after militants exploded the separated wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, seen background, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Egyptian riot police watch as Palestinians cross the border to the Egyptian side of Rafah following a series of explosions by militants along the wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Palestinians cross the border into the Egyptian side of Rafah following a series of explosions by militants along the wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Thousands of Palestinians cross the border into the Egyptian side of Rafah following a series of explosions by militants along the wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Palestinians cross the border into Egypt, as others carry goods back into Gaza, after militants exploded the separated wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Palestinians return with sheep from Egypt to the Gaza Strip after crossing earlier following a series of explosions by militants along the wall between Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008.

Palestinian supporters of Hamas scuffle with Egyptian security personnel and riot police officers, during a demonstration at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Hundreds of Palestinian protesters briefly broke through the Egypt-Gaza border terminal Tuesday, pushing back Egyptian riot police who fired in the air to try to contain the crowd.