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Egyptian flooding drowns Gaza’s tunnel business
One America News Network ^ | November 4, 2015 | Nidal al-Mughrabi

Posted on 11/04/2015 12:52:25 PM PST by sparklite2

Egypt's pumping of salt water from the nearby Mediterranean into the tunnels is not only creating a mess as it rises to the surface. Palestinian officials say it is also contaminating water supplies as well as threatening to wreck farmland and spread disease.

Local residents say that at the peak of the tunnel business, after Hamas Islamists seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 and Israel tightened a closure of its crossings into the enclave, nearly 2,500 underground passages snaked under the border with Egypt.

The direction of traffic was mainly into Gaza. Commercial goods - and weapons smuggled in separate tunnels controlled by Hamas and other militant factions - flowed in defiance of what Palestinians and many of their supporters decried as neighboring Israel's siege.

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


TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: borderfence; canal; egypt; eritrea; fatah; fence; gaza; gazacanal; gazatunnels; goodfence; hamas; hizbollah; iran; israel; lebanon; moat; muslimbrotherhood; rootcanal; sinai; sinaitunnels; smuggling; smugglingtunnels; tunnels; waronterror; yemen

1 posted on 11/04/2015 12:52:25 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

How biblical. They are salting the earth.


2 posted on 11/04/2015 12:58:34 PM PST by WMarshal (Either the mess gets fix or the Democrat Party and the Republican Parties will implode.)
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To: sparklite2
The Pallies could consider stopping construction of the tunnels for terrorists and I'm sure the Egyptians would stop flooding them with sea water.

They could also consider stopping the lobbing of rockets and RPGs at Israel and I'm sure the Israelis would stop shooting back.

I'm sure they will come to their senses any day now, maybe with just a few more visits by John Kerry and his genius diplomats to bribe them with American tax dollars. < / sarcasm >

3 posted on 11/04/2015 1:00:18 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: sparklite2

Photo caption: A Palestinian worker repairs a smuggling tunnel after it was flooded by Egyptian security forces, beneath the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip November 2, 2015.

My question: Why isn’t the “Palestinian worker” shot?


4 posted on 11/04/2015 1:01:56 PM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: sparklite2

>> Palestinian officials say it is also contaminating water supplies as well as threatening to wreck farmland and spread disease.

Then STOP DIGGING TUNNELS, you ignorant vermin.


5 posted on 11/04/2015 1:16:23 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: sparklite2

If they used their digging skills productively they would have struck oil by now.


6 posted on 11/04/2015 1:26:49 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: sparklite2

Good! Anything to get the Satanic Arab murder gangs OUT of there... and back into their own Muslim countries... or better yet, send them directly to their Satan “god” so they can collect their 72 virgins. to HELL with them all, for all the murder, terror, mayhem, and suffering Moslems have caused, and continue to cause, innocent people everywhere on Rock Three

to HELL with them! anyone that can and is willing to do it, SUPER DUPER! ASAP!


7 posted on 11/04/2015 1:31:34 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: sparklite2

Aw, shucks. [/s]


8 posted on 11/04/2015 2:03:11 PM PST by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

9 posted on 11/04/2015 3:05:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: sparklite2

Gee.....another feel good story!


10 posted on 11/04/2015 3:20:02 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: sparklite2

Pali Delenda Est anyone? Rome salted the land at Carthage after its final defeat, albeit from the surface to destroy its farmland. Although given
Pali farming skills destroying farmland there is redundant.


11 posted on 11/04/2015 3:41:49 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change.)
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To: sparklite2

We’re not supposed to feel sorry for the smugglers because the government has figured out how to shut down their smuggling are we?


12 posted on 11/04/2015 3:53:00 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: sparklite2

shudda mixed cement wid da water


13 posted on 11/04/2015 4:40:15 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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