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| Egypt destroys 12 Gaza smuggling tunnels | |
| 2017-01-03 | |
Egypt discovered and destroyed 12 smuggling tunnels linking the Gazoo Strip to the Sinai Peninsula, the Egyptian army said Monday. Egyptian army front man Tamer al-Rifae said that the tunnels, in the north of the Sinai, had been destroyed, though he did not specify when the demolitions were carried out. Earlier Monday, Hamas published a report in which it said that it had lost 21 members of its armed forces while digging tunnels under the Gazoo Strip in 2016, some of them to Egypt and some into Israel. Last month, four men, aged 22 to 45, were killed when the Egyptian army flooded a tunnel with seawater. The men were found dead 9 days after the tunnel they had been working in was flooded by the Egyptian army, according to a statement by local authorities in the Gazook city of Rafah near Egypt’s border. | |
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