CROSS BORDER TUNNELS WITH GAZA GOT DESTROYED BY EGYPTIAN ARMY…
CROSS BORDER TUNNELS WITH GAZA GOT DESTROYED BY EGYPTIAN ARMY…
The Egyptian army has destroyed three cross-border tunnels
linking Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to the blockaded Gaza Strip, a military
spokesman said..
Army Colonel Tamer al-Rifai said the army had demolished three
tunnels found under Egypt’s border with the Hamas-run coastal enclave.
Due to a decade-long blockade imposed by both Israel and Egypt,
the Gaza Strip’s roughly 2 million inhabitants have come to rely on a
sophisticated network of cross-border tunnels to import basic commodities,
including food, fuel and medicine.
Ever since Egypt’s 2013 military coup against the country’s
first freely elected president, the Egyptian authorities have cracked down hard
on the cross-border tunnel network.
In 2014, Egypt set up a “buffer zone” along its border with the
Gaza Strip following a spate of militant attacks on Egyptian security forces
deployed in the Sinai Peninsula.
One year later, the Egyptian army began flooding the tunnel
network with seawater in a bid to eradicate all cross-border traffic.
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