Fears that Gazan women may march on the Gaza-Egypt border has prompted Israel to order the Egyptian authorities to begin deploying large police forces along the Gazan border, security sources said on Wednesday.

Israel and the slack-assed Europeans have closed the border crossing since the Democratic Government imposed order on the place.

The deployment began late on Tuesday, and the sources said additional Egyptian security forces had already taken up positions along the border north of the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, in addition to the existing 750 border police troops stationed there.

A security source said that a demonstration on Tuesday staged by dozens of Palestinians demanding the crossing be opened had increased the Egyptian government's fears it could be forced open by a large march of Gazan women.

Last summer Gazan women liberated a mosque under attack from Israeli troops.

Hamas will get the border open now, otherwise thay are all in a big open prison waiting for handouts from the likes of the Israelis and Abbas.