Egypt forces shoot Palestinians infiltrating through Gaza tunnel

Rasa - Security forces shot dead a Palestinian and wounded two others Saturday after they tried to enter Egypt from Gaza through a tunnel under the border town of Rafah, security officials said.

News ID: 1229

Date: 25 September 2014 - 18:24

RNA – According to Al-Arabia, The men, who were spotted by a security patrol, tried to run back into the tunnel after being ordered to stop and were shot.

Egypt’s army says it has destroyed more than 1,600 tunnels connecting the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, most of them since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammad Mursi last year.

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, the main power in the blockaded Palestinian enclave, uses the tunnels to smuggle in food, money and military equipment.

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