SAMEEH Asyur holds up his cellular phone. This 15-year-old Egyptian who lives just 300 meters from the border with Rafah, Gaza, eagerly plays a video recording on his Nokia 3220. His eyes light up.

In the video, two men about 25 years old can clearly be seen in a dark room. One of them is smoking a cigarette. “We didn’t know them before, but our hearts are with them,” said Asyur told Tempo, during a meeting at the Rafah crossing, on Thursd