[Ma'an] A young man was killed on Monday when a tunnel underneath the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed in Rafah, southern Gaza. Medic Adham Abu Salmia identified the victim as Muhammad Abu Sha'ar, 22, and said his body was transferred to the Abu Yousef An-Najjar hospital in Gaza. Muhammad should have worked in a bowling alley; this wouldn't have happened to him ...
In early April, a group of six Palestinian workers went missing following the collapse of a subterranean smuggling tunnel under the Yebna refugee camp in Rafah. All were later found on the Egyptian side of the tunnel, medics said.
Several Palestinians have died as a result of tunnel collapses, with human rights organizations calling for better protection and safety for workers involved in the industry.
As opposed to not tunneling in the first place because, according to the Egyptians, it's illegal. Ah, Amnesty International ...
The underground tunnel complex was created along the Egypt-Gaza border in the wake of Israel's lockdown of the coastal enclave in June 2007, following Hamas' takeover of the Strip. The tunnels are used to transport a number of goods made unavailable as a result of the siege, including fuel, food, medicines, livestock and vehicles.
And guns. And ammo. Lots of ammo. For the widows, you know.
Egypt has further completed construction of a subterranean steel wall to obstruct smugglers' passage through the tunnel complex, citing their use by Palestinian militants for weapons' smuggling.
Which for some strange reason the Egyptians don't much like. They need to drive the steel wall deeper.