#GazaUnderAttack | The closure didn’t stop the Gaza tunnels

GISHA | July 28, 2014 Amos Harel called Israel’s policy on the tunnels in Gaza a “national strategic failure” in an article in Haaretz. Amir Oren wrote that even the state comptroller won’t manage to make sense of the policy. A story in Yedioth Aharonot’s magazine, 24-Hours, described a mechanism used for exposing tunnels on […]

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VIDEO | Hamas: Egypt’s closure of tunnels causing $230mn in monthly losses

Published on Oct 28, 2013 A Hamas official says the closure of Gaza tunnels by the Egyptian army is inflicting heavy losses on the Israeli-besieged enclave. Deputy Economy Minister Hatem Oweida said the losses from tunnel closures on industry, commerce, agriculture, transport and construction sectors amount to around 230 million dollars each month. The official […]

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Ghussain: Resistance tunnels legitimate means of self-defense

[ PIC 23/10/2013 – 10:48 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Ihab Al-Ghussain, the spokesman for the Gaza government, said that digging resistance tunnels was an internal affair and a legitimate method for self-defense. He said on his Facebook page on Wednesday that the Palestinian people and its resistance factions are entitled to take whatever means possible […]

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Israel Escalates Gaza Blockade, Following Discovery of Underground Tunnels

  Tuesday October 15, 2013 11:18 by Palestine News Network – PNN Israeli officials froze the delivery of construction materials into the Gaza Strip following the army’s discovery of a 1.7 km long tunnel connecting Gaza to Israel. Israeli military official, Guy Invar, sites ‘security reasons’ to justify the recent freeze construction materials. The army […]

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VIDEO | Egypt continues destroying Gaza tunnels

Published on Oct 5, 2013 The Egyptian military has destroyed most of the underground tunnels along the border with the Gaza Strip at a time when the costal enclave is suffering from a seven-year Israeli economic siege. Most Palestinians in the tiny sliver of land have for long considered the underground pathways as their lifeline. […]

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US equipment is being used to detect and demolish Gaza tunnels | #OpenRafahBorder

Middle East Monitor | Sept 15, 2013 Intelligence sources have revealed that the US Corps of Engineers has given a $10 million contract to Raytheon Technologies Company to detect the tunnels underneath the Egypt-Palestine border.   The tunnels have been used to import essential goods to the besieged Gaza Strip and are now being destroyed […]

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Abu Zuhri: Demolishing tunnels threatens humanitarian situation in Gaza

[ PIC 04/09/2013 – 08:14 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas movement stressed its rejection to the demolition of tunnels before providing the alternative to the people of the Gaza Strip. Sami Abu Zuhri, the movement’s spokesman, told Quds Press that the Egyptian claim about ending the issue of tunnels on the border with Gaza to […]

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Egyptian army destroys more tunnels in Rafah area

[ PIC 22/08/2013 – 07:56 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Egyptian army detonated at dawn Wednesday five tunnels and one house in Rafah border area between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. According to Quds Press, clouds of smoke billowed up in the Egyptian side of Rafah area, and sounds of explosions were heard on the […]

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Abu Mazen becomes his own people’s butcher: Abbas rejects free trade zone with Egypt, calls to shut tunnels

Al Ray Agencies | Aug 4, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refused on Monday evening the establishment of a free trade zone between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Abbas explained during a meeting with representatives of Egyptian local media in Cairo “this had not been previously discussed; the authority refuses to take […]

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Haneyya calls on Egypt to find an alternative to the tunnels

[ PIC 18/07/2013 – 03:54 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya said they are communicating with Egypt in order to push forward the national reconciliation, and called for finding an alternative to the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt which are being demolished by Egyptian army. Haneyya pointed out that the Gaza Strip […]

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Egypt Destroys Eight Border Tunnels

 Tuesday July 16, 2013 09:53 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Egyptian Army announced in managed to locate and destroy eight siege-busting tunnels across the border with the Gaza Strip over the last 48 hours, and that it located 23 containers holding a million liters of fuel. The army said that the Egyptian […]

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Al-Ahrar: Tunnels demolition, tightening Gaza siege unjustified crime

[ PIC 16/07/2013 – 12:40 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Al-Ahrar Palestinian movement has considered the new Egyptian leadership’s decision to demolish tunnels between Gaza and Egypt and to tighten Gaza siege as an justified crime. Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza have been the main life line to the Palestinian residents in the Gaza Strip in […]

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Egypt’s Al-Sissi orders destruction for all tunnels to Gaza Strip

[ PIC 15/07/2013 – 01:22 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– The General Command of Egyptian Armed Forces have ordered the demolition of all tunnels between Gaza and Egypt during the next few days before the start of the security operation in Sinai against armed groups, Seventh Day Egyptian website revealed. The operation aims to prevent any […]

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Majority of Rafah tunnels closed

[ PIC 30/06/2013 – 12:01 PM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– About 95% of border tunnels between the Gaza Strip and Egypt had been closed, the PIC reporter in southern Gaza said on Sunday. The reporter quoted eyewitnesses as saying that fuel supplies and construction materials in addition to various goods and foodstuff were halted. He pointed […]

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Hamas: Abbas statement on tunnels ruins relations with Egypt

[ PIC 05/06/2013 – 11:07 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas movement said that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s statement on Gaza tunnels was ruining Egyptian-Palestinian relations. Hamas said in a terse statement on Tuesday that the statement constituted a clear incitement for blockading and starving the Gaza Strip. The movement said that Abbas’s statement on reconciliation […]

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