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Gaza Smuggling Tunnels Back in Business Post-Ceasefire - A short while after Operation Cast Lead has finished, smuggling into Gaza through tunnels has been renewed. News footage from the Associated Press news agency document Arabs loading a fuel truck with gas from a nearby tunnel. In addition, the photos show workers drawing attention to sealed tunnels, and tractors fixing the tunnels. Here is Fox News blog entry from Mike Tobin: "Just when I thought I had seen every surprise the Middle East had to offer, I showed up on the Gaza/Egypt border. To understand why this is such a surprise you need to remember that Israel said the war in Gaza had two goals: 1) To stop the rocket fire and 2) To stop the smuggling of rockets into the Gaza strip and close the tunnels through which they are smuggled from the Egyptian side. So, I arrive at the border and find an entire community digging away like prospectors during the gold rush. It was all out in the open. They were pulling broken wood out of the opening of tunnels. Diggers, most of them kids, were covered from head-to-toe with sand having done the labor of re-opening the tunnels Israel had just closed with 22 days of a withering air campaign."
Category: terror
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