A Palestinian enters a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip that runs under the Egyptian border and into Gaza at Rafah on January 24. Patrick Baz / AFP / GettyFrom Time Magazine:
With the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas militants on the edge of collapse, the most dangerous job in Gaza — digging tunnels into Egypt — just got a lot more dangerous. Destroying the tunnels that allowed the import of both vital food and fuel supplies denied Gazans by the Israeli blockade, but also enabled the ferrying of weapons to Hamas, was a key objective of Israel's 22-day military operation, and its aircraft and artillery pounded the sandy patch of land along the Egyptian border in the hope of collapsing them. But as soon as the truce was declared, the diggers got busy again, using shovels and jackhammers to repair tunnels caved in by bombing, and to begin burrowing new ones.
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My Comment: 10 meters a day, 1 kilometer in 100 days (give or take). That is some digging.
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