Posted on 08/21/2014 2:55:34 PM PDT by markomalley
A third of the houses on the main street of this Bedouin town near Egypt's border with Gaza look derelict, but inside they buzz with the activity of tunnel smugglers scrambling to survive a security crackdown by the Egyptian army.
Smugglers and tunnel owners, who once publicly advertised their services, have taken over the nearly two dozen single-storey concrete structures and boarded up their doors and windows to avoid the attention of the authorities.
While tunnels used by Gaza's dominant Hamas militants to infiltrate Israel were a priority target of an Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave this summer, many smuggling conduits into Egypt have skirted detection.
That has allowed transports of weapons, building materials, medicine and food to continue to and from the small, coastal territory that is subject to blockade by both Israel and Egypt, tunnel operators say and Egyptian security sources acknowledge.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
The only thing an Egyptian “crackdown” means is that the cost of the bribes to transit the tunnels has risen considerably. Egypt is destitute and those border guards can’t be that well paid. Within a few months Hamas will be rearmed with more sophisticated and stealthy missiles. Israel has a real problem.
Terrorist tunnels are financed by Barack Obama.
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Where are they getting them, and how will they launch them?
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