9 March 2011
At approximately 12:30am on Wednesday 9 March 2011, medical sources at Abu Yousif An-Najar Hospital announced the death of Yousif Khalil Yousif Al Bala'awi, 29, who was from Gaza City.
He died when the tunnel he was working in collapsed.
Al Bala'awihad been working in a tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border near Al Brazil neighborhood, in southern Rafah.