A Palestinian tunnel digger, wearing a mask to conceal his identity, removes sand in a bucket from a tunnel underground in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt, in this file photo taken late Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. Hamas Making $20 Million A Month From Gaza
Smuggling Tunnels -- Haaretz
Smuggling Tunnels -- Haaretz
Arab sources report that Hamas recently laid a pipeline for supplying the blockaded Gaza Strip with fuel from Egypt.
In a move that indicates that Hamas is trying to place the smuggling operation between Egyptian and Palestinian Rafah on an official footing, the pipeline was laid in one of several tunnels dug specifically for this purpose.
At a conference last week in Rafah to discuss the smuggling tunnels phenomenon, Hamas government officials made it clear that they mean to prevent any new tunnels from operating, and to increase oversight of some 200 tunnels already in use. Hamas wants to thwart use of the tunnels for drug smuggling, and the exploitation of child labor in digging the tunnels.
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My Comment: The Egyptians are turning a blind eye to this activity. If they wanted to put the "screws" to Hamas .... the best way would be to cut off their lifeline.