Gaza City – Gaza Officials: 4 Palestinians Suffocate In Tunnel

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    FILE - A Palestinian police officer looks at a damaged smuggling tunnel following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)Gaza City – Gaza officials say four Palestinians have suffocated while trying to repair a smuggling tunnel hit in an Israeli airstrike last week.

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    There are hundreds of tunnels under the 9-mile (15-kilometer) Gaza-Egypt border, used for smuggling goods and people into Gaza. Israel charges that weapons and ammunition, including rockets that can hit Israeli cities, reach Gaza through the tunnels.

    Israel hits tunnels in airstrikes, retaliation for rocket attacks from Gaza. But there have been no airstrikes in the past two days.

    Hamas and Gaza health officials said the four Palestinians died Tuesday as they worked underground. In the past three years, about 160 workers have been killed in the tunnels, human rights groups say.


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    12 years ago

    They were repairing the tunnel? Or middle of smuggling?

    Longwave
    Longwave
    12 years ago

    If Egypt was so nice to the arabs from Gaza, then why did they need tunnels???

    flatbushmm
    flatbushmm
    12 years ago

    Ba’avod Reshaim Rena!!!

    downtoearth
    downtoearth
    12 years ago

    nebach

    festayid
    festayid
    12 years ago

    I hope they suffered. Cmon all you liberals blast me for my lack of humanitarian feeling.

    charliehall
    charliehall
    12 years ago

    May they rest in pieces!

    chochmo
    chochmo
    12 years ago

    “about 160 workers have been killed in the tunnels, human rights groups say.”
    so the human rights groups want them yo be able to smuggle in public that they don’t die underground.

    MosheZuchmere
    MosheZuchmere
    12 years ago

    Number 6 – how dare you? Why would you wish that on any human being, let alone those who are committed to the annihilation of Jews? Why would you want them to suffer? They are human after all – and you wouldn’t even wish that on an animal! Shame on you!

    They should have suffered? I can only hope it was a very slow, very painful process to allow them enough time to think about the error of their ways, so the special place in pergutory will be not as bad.

    12 years ago

    יוסף ה’ עליהם אלף פעמים

    speakup
    speakup
    12 years ago

    Do you think they suffered as much as the Fogels? Just askin’.

    Dovid_from_Modiin
    Dovid_from_Modiin
    12 years ago

    May Hashem destroy and collapse the rest of the Aza tunnels and fortified bunkers.

    marcia
    marcia
    12 years ago

    Since when has it been the purpose of human rights groups to report on deaths that occur due to illegal terroristic smuggling? Now the Israelis will be charged by the UN with unnecessary suffocation….. because all these people in the tunnel were doing were “simply looking for shelter”!