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Egyptians find tunnels, Americans tour border
[Ma'an] Egyptian authorities took over three smuggling tunnels on the border between Gaza and Egypt on Thursday.Egyptian security sources told Ma'an that "one of the tunnels was seized inside an Egyptian smuggler's home in the Salah Ad-Din area on the border. No goods were seized." Two other tunnels were discovered in an empty plot of land without finding any goods there, either. No one was arrested. Meanwhile, an American military delegation visited the border area on Thursday, among them three military figures including Walid Naser, a Lebanese-American officer who during his monthly visit supervised the network of tunnel sensors. Naser was accompanied by the naval and military attaches at the US Embassy in Cairo. The delegation checked the border area and followed up on the installation of sensors in the tunnels. Egypt and Israel placed the Gaza Strip under a blockade in June 2007, slashing imports, banning exports, and prohibiting Palestinians in Gaza from leaving. Posted by: Fred 2009-12-12 |
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