Posted on 08/11/2008 5:52:08 PM PDT by abu afak
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The bodies of 3 Palestinians have been recovered from a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip which collapsed at the weekend, while 6 people are missing, medics said Monday.
The tunnel near the Rafah border crossing caved in on Saturday, burying the 9 Palestinians, the medics said.
Several Palestinians have died in recent months in the tunnels, which are used to smuggle arms, fuel, and other supplies into the Gaza Strip, which has been under a crippling Israeli blockade for nearly a year.
Israel, which sealed Gaza off from all but vital humanitarian aid after the Islamist Hamas movement seized power in June 2007, has accused Egypt of not doing enough to shut down the extensive tunnel network, charges Cairo denies.
Egyptian security forces last week began destroying or blocking 20 tunnels where they seized large amounts of fuel, food and cigarettes, an Egyptian security official said Thursday.....
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for later
Oopsy daisey.
Milk prices going higher!!!
Perhaps Smuggling Fuel and Cigarrettes at the same time maybe isn’t that wise.
Egyptians really hate ‘Palestinians’ anyway.
“Egyptians really hate ‘Palestinians’ anyway.”
AS I recall, the ‘Palestinians’ hate the Palestinians. Half of them hate the other, and even in those halves, they seem to love to kill each other.
Does anyone else remember that the original “Palestinian Homeland” was Jordon, and Jordon kicked out (with massive loss of life) the Arafat crowd? That crowd then went to Lebanon, which hasn’t been the same since.
Ask me if I give a sh!t!
Oh wait.... Palestinians?
Gaza?
Never mind.
The more of these subhumans that (notice, I delibertely didn’t say “who”) die miserably in this type of “work accident,” the better.
Jordan still is 70% “Palestinian”.. even since the Expulsion/Killing in ‘Black September’ 1970 when King Hussein prevented Arafat from Turning Jordan into THEE palestinian state it was.
and yes, the palestinians were the ‘straw that broke the camels back’ so to speak.. a few years later the Lebanese Civil War kicked- the palestinians (muslims) a significant catalyst.
Work related?
The important news here is that the Egyptians are shutting them down.
These tunnels cannot be kept secret. Everybody knows where the entrances are. No way can you do all this engineering and moving of goods without it being obvious. This is a problem for all smuggling tunnels, in Egypt and on our border. They are fixed targets.
Tisk tisk. Somebody wasn't paying attention during roof support class at the jihad school.
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