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Hamas Takes Control of All Gaza Tunnels
[Jerusalem Post] Yaakov Katz - Hamas has seized control of all the smuggling tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor in southern Gaza and has been moving in additional arms since the Gaza operation ended Sunday. The tunnels in Rafah are usually run by local Palestinian clans. Hamas' decision to take control enables it to decide what is smuggled in and to give priority to weapons and explosives. On Thursday, Amos Gilad, the head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, was in Cairo for talks about kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and the new anti-smuggling mechanism set up with the Egyptians. The system consists of three layers - intelligence cooperation, obstacles in Sinai, and deployment of new tunnel-detection technology along the border.