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Palestinian media: 5 dead in Gaza tunnel collapse
Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) ^ | 4/10/16 | Ari Yashar

Posted on 04/12/2016 7:28:28 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

According to Arab reports five diggers were killed on Sunday in a tunnel collapse at the city of Rafiah, located in southern Gaza on the border with the Sinai Peninsula.

The deaths were reported by Palestinian media cited by Walla, and mark the eleventh tunnel cave-in in recent months. " /img> The last collapse, which came in mid-March, saw a Hamas "field commander" die during work on a terror tunnel, two days after the bodies of two Arab workers were found in a tunnel on the southern Gazan border that was flooded by Egypt three days earlier.

With the five deaths on Sunday, it would appear that the death toll from terror and smuggling tunnel collapses since January 26 has risen to 20 according to an unofficial Arutz Sheva count. Most of the dead are terrorists of Hamas' "armed wing," the Al-Qassam Brigades.

For many long months Egypt has been establishing a buffer zone inside Gaza along the Sinai border, which has involved flooding the tunnels and destroying the infrastructure that helped Hamas smuggle weapons and goods.

Hamas has been busily reconstructing its terror tunnel network breaching into Israeli territory, and after the last collapse some media reports speculated that a secret Israeli weapon and not heavy rains was responsible for the cave-ins.

Back in February the IDF warned that Hamas appears to be focusing its efforts on one central tunnel breaching deep into sovereign Israel to facilitate attacks on civilians. Reportedly 1,000 Hamas terrorists are working on the major tunnel.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Egypt; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; fatah; gaza; goodfence; goodriddance; hamas; hizbollah; israel; jewishpinglist; palestinians; waronterror; workaccident
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"drain ports keep falling on my head..."

That'll teach the Palis to stop stealing tablecloths from Olive Garden ;)
1 posted on 04/12/2016 7:28:28 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Well, I think I’ll head to bed now and end the day on a high note.


2 posted on 04/12/2016 7:29:24 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Impala64ssa

Ha!


3 posted on 04/12/2016 7:30:15 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Impala64ssa

<< five diggers were killed >>

Bummer.


4 posted on 04/12/2016 7:30:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Q. What do you call 5 dead Palis in a Gaza tunnel collapse?

A. A good start.


5 posted on 04/12/2016 7:30:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." --Samuel Clemens)
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To: Impala64ssa

Saved ‘em burial expenses.


6 posted on 04/12/2016 7:31:24 PM PDT by lightman (I'm nothing special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Rachel Corrie memorial tunnel.


7 posted on 04/12/2016 7:34:52 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Impala64ssa

I always like a happy ending :-)


8 posted on 04/12/2016 7:35:30 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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IDF should round up a huge box of hungry vipers and release them at one end of the tunnel.

Call it OPERATION PLAGUE or something.

Matter of fact, we should do that on the Mexican drug tunnels... hmm...


9 posted on 04/12/2016 7:39:15 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: Impala64ssa

Instant graves.


10 posted on 04/12/2016 7:40:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Impala64ssa

That’s scarier than the Mexican tunnels.


11 posted on 04/12/2016 7:42:18 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the eleventh tunnel cave-in in recent months.


12 posted on 04/12/2016 7:46:43 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Impala64ssa

If a tunnel collapses on Palestinian terrorists (Al Fatah, Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade or Hamas), does any decent person give a good crap?


13 posted on 04/12/2016 7:50:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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How sad . Those jolly industrious tunnelers were just digging to irrigate their tomatoes.


14 posted on 04/12/2016 7:50:47 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Impala64ssa

These people are pathetic. They are generally stupid and feckless, although occasionally by an off chance, they manage to create some havoc. Even in war, they claim victimhood - the Israeli’s supposedly have some “secret weapon” to detect and destroy their tunnels.


15 posted on 04/12/2016 7:52:44 PM PDT by PGR88
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a few more dead sand diggers.


16 posted on 04/12/2016 7:54:20 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Good one!


17 posted on 04/12/2016 8:00:17 PM PDT by W. (Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
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Don’t care. Fuqum


18 posted on 04/12/2016 8:02:36 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Bon mots

“a few more dead sand diggers.”

Nice! Post of the decade


19 posted on 04/12/2016 8:03:43 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: PGR88

“...the Israelis supposedly have some “secret weapon” to detect and destroy their tunnels.”

But they do, Achmed, they do! Those evil Jews have the best antitunnel technology in the world simply because you jihadi murderers have declared Jewish women and children to be “reservists & therefore legitimate targets”.

So think about that as you choke & suffocate in watery darkness.


20 posted on 04/12/2016 8:15:38 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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