(Ha'aretz) Jack Khoury - The Egyptian army has been destroying smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Sinai by flooding them, the Hamas website reported. The Egyptian army has increased its deployment along its border since August 5, 2012, when 16 Egyptian border police were killed in a terror attack. A Palestinian official said that Egypt's destruction of the tunnels is in keeping with the agreements reached between Egypt, Hamas and Israel after Israel's Gaza operation in November.
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