Egypt Floods Gaza's Smuggling Tunnels
Egypt's decision to flood some of Gaza's tunnels last week caught local Palestinians by surprise, Abeer Ayyoub reports.
Business was quiet at the smuggling tunnels in the al-Salam neighborhood, which straddles Gaza’s border with Egypt, unlike other border areas where bulldozers and young workers loaded construction materials and food products onto trucks.
For two weeks, Egyptian security forces have been flooding dozens of tunnels in al-Salam with waste water. Palestinians fear this will turn into a systematic crackdown that will continue in other neighborhoods and paralyze the tunnel business.
