By Xinhua
Cairo : Some Palestinians were seen to use a bulldozer trying to open new passages into Egypt at the Egyptian-Gaza border on Friday as Egyptian troops moved to close the border town of Rafah, the pan-Arab television al-Jazeera reported.
A large number of Palestinians rushed into the Egyptian side again after the bulldozer knocked over a new section of the border wall separating Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian border guards shot in the air as the bulldozer continued breaching the border wall at the small town where many Palestinians are gathering in the streets and trying to cross into Egypt.
TV footage showed that small scale violence occurred as water cannons were seen fired above the heads of the gathering people to keep them back.