Hamas leader predicts Friday mass breach of Israeli border

10 May 2018, 6:11 pm

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Hamas’s Gaza leader says protesters in a mass demonstration along the Israeli border next week will be unarmed and peaceful.

But Yahya Sinwar says he is holding out the possibility that the huge crowd could burst through the fence into Israel.

Speaking with foreign journalists Thursday, Sinwar compares the residents of blockaded Gaza to caged animals whose actions are impossible to predict. He also claims that Israel’s borders are not internationally recognized and do not have to be respected.

“What’s the problem if hundreds of thousands storm this fence which is not a border of a state? What’s the problem with that?” he says.

Israel says it will defend its border and accuses Hamas of exploiting civilians.

— AP