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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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To: Impala64ssa

21 posted on 04/12/2016 8:32:24 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Impala64ssa

How sad ... it was only 5.


22 posted on 04/12/2016 8:46:17 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Bon mots

I see what you did there. ;-)


23 posted on 04/12/2016 9:11:13 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Impala64ssa

The first thing that needs to happen is a complete ban on construction materials.

I do have to say I loved it when the palis were complaining about how their streets and cellars were being flooded by polluted water, because the Egyptian military were flooding the tunnels, in some cases, with sea water.

Mark


24 posted on 04/12/2016 9:21:24 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: ozzymandus
Ha!

I'll raise your Ha! and raise you 3 guffaws.

25 posted on 04/12/2016 9:37:40 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Impala64ssa

Since the Arabs tell these hormone-driven adolescents that their jihad activities will get each of them 72 virgins if they die in the process, these frequently collapsing tunnels can rightly be called “Tunnels of Love.”


26 posted on 04/12/2016 10:16:24 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Impala64ssa
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.

Oh NOES..... someone is selling the Joos the Rodenators....

They forgot to add "Islamists Savagaes" to the list...

27 posted on 04/12/2016 10:20:10 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Impala64ssa

Ululate and pass the sweets!


28 posted on 04/13/2016 12:29:33 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (The would-be Empress has no clothes. My eyes!)
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To: Impala64ssa

The smart ones who knew how to build a tunnel died in the last Israeli combat operation and the stupid ones are trying to replace all their work.

Piece Be Upon Their Heads (PBUH)


29 posted on 04/13/2016 1:33:58 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy

You all forget is that they force children to dig the tunnels for them.


30 posted on 04/13/2016 7:01:25 AM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: Read Write Repeat

That was done to some effect on VC tunnels in Viet Nam,


31 posted on 04/13/2016 7:04:17 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I’m sure that you have read about the Burmese pythons in Florida.

Wouldn’t it be a hoot if our guys were to round up a bunch of them and ship them to the Israelis for tunnel patrol?


32 posted on 04/13/2016 8:03:19 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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