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Tri-CityheraldIn Rafah, tunnels from Gaza just a way to do business

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14 October 2011

Mohannad Sabry, McClatchy Newspapers RAFAH, Egypt — Driving in this Egyptian city hard against the border with the Gaza Strip, one observation comes to mind after the gridlocked streets of Cairo: Traffic sure moves smoothly.
Except in the neighborhood of Salah Eddin.
There, pickups and tractor-trailers clog the narrow streets, carrying loads of almost anything: cookies, canned food, tanks of cooking gas, cement, construction steel.
What comes into the neighborhood, however, leaves it only through a network of secret tunnels that are the major conduit for goods headed into Gaza, where 1.
2 million Palestinians live under an Israeli blockade.

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