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Palestinians begin to form the human chain
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February 25 2008: Palestinian protesters attend a human chain protest starting at the southern Rafah border with Egypt and running to the Erez checkpoint at the northern border with Israel. They are calling for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, near the Israel-Gaza strip crossing. Israel threatened to use deadly force if the march became an attempt to surge across the border into Israeli territory