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August 11, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1010220.html

Egypt Closes Some Smuggling Tunnels to Gaza

[Ha'aretz] Avi Issacharoff - Egypt has recently sealed dozens of tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons from Sinai to Gaza. According to Palestinian sources, Egyptian security forces have destroyed at least 40 active tunnels in the past few weeks. According to some accounts, the Egyptians pumped poisonous fumes through some of the tunnels to flush out smugglers from other tunnels connected to the ones discovered. However, Palestinian sources maintain that, despite the crackdown, smuggling has hardly diminished in volume.

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