The Islamic Hamas movement sent dozens of children to demonstrate on Gaza's southern borders with Egypt Saturday in protest against an underground barrier Egypt is building to curb smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.The flag-waving children have also held banners pointing out that the steel wall will help tightening an Israeli-Egyptian closure on Gaza, imposed since Hamas took over the coastal enclave in 2007.
Some of the banners read "Stop strangling Gaza" while others called on "Egypt's people to unite with us to lift the siege."
Civil societies and charities affiliated with Hamas organized the rally.
Some of the children climbed over a barbed wire prior to the border fence and placed Palestinian flags and gave the V-sign to Egyptian security men who watched from the roof of the building.
Egypt has not officially revealed information about the wall but various Israeli reports said it will go more than 20 meters deep in the ground to cut a network of tunnels the Palestinians use to bring in goods and products that Israel doesn't allow to enter through the official crossings into Gaza.
