Palestinian witnesses reported Tuesday that gunmen tried to break into the Gaza-Egypt border crossing and exchanged fire with Palestinian police.

One policeman guarding the Rafah crossing was wounded, the witnesses said.function initServerVars() {_headup.clientHost = 'http://newstopics.jpost.com';_headup.termsFromServer = 0;_headup.annotatedTerms = 0;_headup.widgetMode = 'snippet';_headup.snippetButtonStyle = 'banner';_headup.blackListedUrl = false;}