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Israel/Palestine

oberliner

(58,724 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2014, 06:28 AM Sep 2014

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Egypt forces shoot Palestinians infiltrating through Gaza tunnel

Security forces shot dead a Palestinian and wounded two others Saturday after they tried to enter Egypt from Gaza through a tunnel under the border town of Rafah, security officials said.

The men, who were spotted by a security patrol, tried to run back into the tunnel after being ordered to stop and were shot.

Egypt’s army says it has destroyed more than 1,600 tunnels connecting the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, most of them since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammad Mursi last year.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/09/21/Egypt-forces-shoot-Palestinians-infiltrating-through-Gaza-tunnel-.html

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Egypt forces shoot Palestinians infiltrating through Gaza tunnel (Original Post) oberliner Sep 2014 OP

Taxes on tunnel smuggling used to be a big source of income for Hamas hack89 Sep 2014 #1

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hack89

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1. Taxes on tunnel smuggling used to be a big source of income for Hamas

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Mon Sep 22, 2014, 12:32 PM

Sep 2014

I am sure this crack down is hurting their bottom line.

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