JAKARTA (Agencies) – Hundreds Indonesian Muslims protested in Jakarta Sunday against an underground iron wall being built to block a network of tunnels crossing Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip.

The demonstrators from the Voice of Palestine support group carried banners reading ""Stop Building Steel Wall on Gaza"" and chanted ""Die America, Die Egypt"" in front of the Egyptian embassy, AFP reported.
Israel controls three sides of the Gaza strip. The Northern and Eastern borders are blocked by the Israeli army, the Western border by the Israeli navy. The fourth border, the Southern one, is controlled by Egypt. Now Egypt has started building an iron wall along the full length of the Gaza border, consisting of steel pillars thrust deep into the ground, in order to block all these economic tunnels.
""We demand Egypt to remove the wall on humanitarian grounds. Erecting the wall will cause the Palestinians to suffer economically. Food supply will be affected,"" the group's coordinator, Hisyam Sulaiman, 42, told AFP.
The network has withstood Israeli air strikes and Egyptian attempts to flood the tunnels with water and gas.
Citing national security, Egypt is now building an underground iron wall in a bid to tighten its Sinai border with the restive Palestinian territory.
The United States has voiced its support for the wall's construction, saying it will stop smuggling.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, with 234 million people, is a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause.
Photo: Indonesian Muslims hold up posters and wave a Palestinian flag during a protest supporting the people of Gaza in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Hundreds of protesters staged the protest urging Egyptian government to stop its construction of an underground steel wall along its border with Gaza which could eventually block hundreds of economic tunnels and deprive people of Gaza of their only lifeline. (AP photo)
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