Twelfth lunar month, the fifth day of (BingXu years), January 23, 2007, the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt was masked militants exploded.


2007 January 23, 2010, the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah (Rafah) about 2/3 was the masked militants destruction, tens of thousands of Palestinian people then influx of Egypt to buy food and fuel and other necessities.
According to eyewitnesses, the militants started before dawn destroy the border wall. Hamas officials then most of the border blockade, but left two gaps to allow Palestinian residents freely. Hamas police in maintaining traffic.
Egyptian border guards did not take any measures, security personnel and police were withdrawn from the border zone, but Egypt does not this make any instructions. Since the Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in June last year, the Egyptian border closed for long, to prevent Egypt from armed groups like Hamas.