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2021-09-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead
[Jpost] Egypt has destroyed more than 3,000 tunnels along its border with the Gaza Strip in the past six years.

Three Palestinians died on Thursday as the Egyptian military pumped toxic gas into a smuggling tunnel, Palestinian media reported.

The tunnel stretches from the Gaza Strip to the Sinai peninsula.

In 2019, two Palestinians died and several others wounded after Egyptian troops pumped toxic fumes into a smuggling tunnel stretching into the Sinai Peninsula from the Gaza Strip. In February 2017, three Palestinians were killed in a tunnel between Gaza and Sinai in similar circumstances.

“In 2015, the [Egyptian] government took a decision to establish a buffer zone along the border [with the Gaza Strip]. These tunnels were used to threaten Egypt’s national security, including the infiltration of terrorists, smuggling of weapons, ammunition, goods, narcotic drugs and vehicles. We established the buffer zone in stages because residents had to be relocated. They have received compensation," he said in an interview given to Egyptian news channel Extra News in 2020.

The Egyptian security forces were continuing their “heroic actions to defeat terrorists” in the Sinai Peninsula, he said, adding that 126 terrorists were killed during the recent military operation there.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top
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#1 Propane might work...
Posted by Glenmore 2021-09-04 02:13||   2021-09-04 02:13|| Front Page Top

#2 

Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a cost saver.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-04 02:26||   2021-09-04 02:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I hear it works for moles and other vermin.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-04 02:29||   2021-09-04 02:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Just imagine the outcry if Israel did something like that.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-09-04 02:53||   2021-09-04 02:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Filling them with H2S is far more fun. It's not only flammable and an asphyxiant it's also corrosive!
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-09-04 03:39||   2021-09-04 03:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Can we put Egypt in charge of the US southern border?
Posted by Too Old To Work 2021-09-04 07:12||   2021-09-04 07:12|| Front Page Top

#7 In Viet Nam US "Tunnel Rats" pumped a kind of pepper spray into tunnels used by VC in the honeycombed III Corps region. Their work was quite effective.
Posted by Bertie Crains2651 2021-09-04 07:53||   2021-09-04 07:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Do we know what the Egyptians used?
A bit surprising some human rights NGO isn't whinging about it.
Posted by SteveS 2021-09-04 16:51||   2021-09-04 16:51|| Front Page Top

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