A 25-year-old man died of electrocution in a Gaza smuggling tunnel on Sunday morning, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.
| Probably bringing in more brass and marble for the next big shopping mall to be built over there -- they're mall-mad in Gaza these days. |
Bilal Islam sustained an electric shock while working in a tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt border, Ma'an quoted medics as saying.
According to the report, 160 Palestinians have died in underground tunnels since 2006, when Israel imposed a naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.
| At the same time Egypt closed off the Gaza Strip from the other side. Were it otherwise, either the Egypt/Gaza border would be wide open to trade, or the Gazans would be digging tunnels under their border with Israel. |
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