10 jan 2011
Five Palestinians seriously wounded in tunnel explosion
GAZA, (PIC)-- Five Palestinians were seriously injured when an explosion ripped through the tunnel they were digging on the Egyptian-Palestinian borders in southern Gaza Strip on Sunday night, Palestinian sources said.
They added that the five were carried to southern Gaza hospitals with severe burns, adding that three of them were in very critical conditions.
No reason was yet known for the explosion as the Palestinian police started an investigation into the incident.
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed or injured over the past few years as a result of working in those tunnels, which are dug to smuggle goods into the besieged coastal enclave.
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5 Gazans injured in a tunnel collapse
Gaza,(Pal Telegraph) - Five Gazan workers were injured yesterday in a tunnel collapse between the borders of southern Gaza strip and Egypt.
Medical sources at Yousef Al-Najjar hospital said that five Palestinians were injured and suffered third- grade burns while they were working there .
They were evacuated to Naser hospital, in khan Younis and to A-l Shifa hospital in Gaza city because of their serious injures ,Sources added.
Security sources said to SAFA news agency that the collapse took place due to a type of poison gas caused an explosion with the other types .
Investigations are under way to find out the cause behind the incident, pointing out that more than four tunnels in the place were severely damaged, sources reported.
It is noteworthy that dozens of Gazans work in tunnels and expose their lives to danger inorder to smuggle goods into the blockaded Gaza strip since 2007.
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Gaza worker dies after tunnel collapse
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) A young man who sustained burns last week inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip died Saturday evening of his wounds.
Medical sources in Gaza said 21-year-old Muhammad Madi sustained deadly wounds and burns on Jan 10.
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- 19 jan 2011
Tunnel worker dies of burns sustained in accident
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) A Gaza man from succumbed Wednesday to wounds and burns he sustained last week when a fire erupted inside a smuggling tunnel under the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip.
Adham Abu Salmiya, a Gaza medical official, said 24-year-old Ashraf Abu Asar of the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City died of critical burns he sustained working in a smuggling tunnel in Rafah.
Earlier this week, 21-year-old Muhammad Jalal Madi died of similar burns he sustained in the same accident.
The first two victims in 2011 bring the death toll from smuggling tunnel accidents to 156 since 2006.
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Maria 20 jan 2011
Egypt finds 4 tunnels
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Egypt took over four tunnels Thursday on the border with Gaza and thwarted the transfer of metal and food.
Authorities found large amounts of metal, used in building, and food, sources said.
Authorities also found two tunnels. They were placed under tight guard to be destroyed.
Security sources said the total number of tunnels seized since the beginning of 2011 was around 20 used for smuggling building materials needed for Palestinian markets.
Egypt seized 600 tunnels last year, officials said, 20 of them used for cars.
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Maria 25 jan 2011
Egypt closes 25th Gaza tunnel this year
EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma'an) -- Egyptian officials said Tuesday that they closed two smuggling tunnels running beneath the Gaza-Egypt border.
Including the latest closures, Egyptian authorities said 25 tunnels have been shut down in January.
The tunnels emerged in the Salah Ad-Din area of the Egyptian Rafah, officials said, adding that the passageways contained commercial goods set for transport into the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Maria 30 jan 2011
Egyptian uprising not a threat to Gaza fuel supply
GAZA, (PIC)-- Tunnels used to get goods into the Gaza Strip from Egypt are still operating, informed sources say. And an interruption in the flow of goods is not a concern, they add.
The Israeli economic blockade has forced Gazans to rely on the tunnels to import fuels and other commodities.
Rumors had spread that the popular uprising in Egypt had interrupted the flow of fuel pumped from Egypt through tunnels.
Fuel stations in Gaza have been overwhelmed since Saturday.
The Palestinian government is closely following developments in Egypt and their impact on the Palestinian arena amid confidence and great hope in the future, those sources tell the PIC.
"What matters at this stage is ensuring that Gaza lives in stability and peace, that food is available, that the tunnels remain operating, and that there is a quantity of fuel in the Gaza Strip."
Gaza`s Finance Ministry said fuels and food are available in the Gaza Strip in sufficient quantity, and there is no need to worry.
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Maria 30 jan 2011
Gazans stockpile fuel as tunnel trade stops
GAZA CITY (AFP) -- Gazans were on Sunday stockpiling fuel over fears that supplies from Egypt, which are brought in through smuggling tunnels, could be halted by the political unrest gripping the country, witnesses said.
The witnesses in the southern city of Rafah said the daily passage of goods through the cross-border tunnels had ground to a halt since Friday as the political unrest sweeping the country reached the Egyptian half of Rafah.
The majority of petrol and diesel supplies in Gaza are brought in through the tunnels, but the Hamas-run ministry of economy insisted there was no shortage and called for an end to panic-buying.
"There is enough fuel in the stores and enough food. We urge people not to worry about fuel or other goods," a ministry statement said.
The reports came as Palestinian officials said the Rafah crossing would remain closed because there was no-one to man the Egyptian side of the terminal.
More than 100 people have so far been killed in Egypt which is being rocked by the biggest protests to sweep the country in more than 30 years.
Demonstrators are demanding the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who has ruled the country since 1981.
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Maria 27 febr 2011
3 injured in Gaza tunnel collapse
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- Three Palestinians were injured Sunday when a smuggling tunnel collapsed near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said.
Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said the injured were transferred to Yousef An-Najjar Hospital.
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Maria 2 mrt 2011
Worker killed in tunnel accident
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- A young man died Wednesday morning working inside tunnels at the Egyptian border in southern Gaza.
Riziq Abdul Aziz, 21, was crushed by a barrel that workers were moving under the border at Rafah, medics said.
His body was received at Abu Yousef Najjar Hospital, medical officials said announced Wednesday.
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Maria 5 mrt 2011
Body of Gazan killed in Egypt brought back via tunnel
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The body of a Palestinian man murdered in the Egyptian city of Rafah was returned to the Gaza Strip via a smuggling tunnel on Friday night, local sources said.
The body of Adel Madhi, 32, was taken to Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in the Gaza-side of Rafah, a border town, Palestinian sources said.
Madhi was shot dead by an unidentified gunman.
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Maria 7 mrt 2011
Tunnel collapse kills Gaza man
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- A young man died Monday morning inside a tunnel at the Egyptian border in southern Gaza, medics in the coastal enclave confirmed.
Identified as Abdul Aziz Sabah, 18, from Der Al-Balah, the teen was said to have been crushed wen a Rafah-area tunnel collapsed.
Medics retrieved the body and delivered it to the Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital, medical officials announced.
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Maria 9 mrt 2011
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Hamas fighter said killed in Rafah on 'jihad mission'
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas' armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades announced the death of a fighter on Tuesday, saying in a statement that the 20 year old was killed in a "jihadist mission in the Rafah district."
The young man was identified as Abed Al-Hamid Naser Abu Ghali from the Rafah refugee camp. A statement from the brigades said Abu Ghali joined the group in 2007, at 16, and would be buried following a funeral procession on Wednesday.
Israeli news site Ynet reported Wednesday that a tunnel between Egypt and Gaza collapsed overnight, killing one man, and also said plans were seen flying over the Strip after an explosion.
No Israeli air strikes were reported overnight.
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Resistance fighter from Al-Qassem dies in special mission yesterday
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said one of its resistance fighters died at night Tuesday during a special resistance mission without stating further details.
In a communiqué, the Brigades mourned the death of Abdulhamid Abu Ghali, 21, from Rafah city and vowed to continue its preparations for the defense of Gaza against any Zionist attack.
A number of Al-Qassam resistance fighters have died since the outbreak of 2000 intifada during special secret missions.
In a separate incident, a Palestinian workman died Tuesday evening inside a tunnel used to bring food and other vital needs into the besieged Gaza Strip in Rafah area.
A medical source told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Yousuf Balawi, 29, from Gaza city died buried when the tunnel he was working in suddenly collapsed.
More than 150 impoverished Gazan workmen have died so far in similar incidents.
Tunnels are considered the lifeline for Gaza people who have been under blockade for more than four years.
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Maria 9 mrt 2011
Gaza: Tunnel worker dies in latest collapse
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- A 29-year-old Gaza man died Tuesday night when the tunnel he was working in on the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed.
Medics identified the man as Yousef Khalil Al-Bal'awi from Jabaliya, saying he suffocated in the tunnel collapse.
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Maria 10 mrt 2011
Man shot in Rafah tunnel
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- A young Gaza man was found dead Thursday in one of the underground tunnels south of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources identified the slain teenager as Kareem Sabaheen, 19, who medics told Ma'an was shot Thursday morning in a tunnel.
His body was transferred to the Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital.
The shooter remains unknown, but police said an investigation had been opened.
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Maria 15 mrt 2011
6 workers injured in Rafah tunnel
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Six Palestinian workers were injured and others were missing on Tuesday as gas cylinders exploded in a Gaza tunnel, Palestinian officials said.
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Maria 16 mrt 2011
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Maria 16 mrt 2011
2 tunnel workers killed in Rafah
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The explosion of a gas canister in a smuggling tunnel beneath the Egypt-Gaza border caused a mass collapse Tuesday night, killing two and injuring four.
Civil Defense crews evacuated the men, and medics pronounced two dead on Wednesday morning.
Four others were evacuated to hospital in Rafah. The dead were identified as As%u2019ad Al-Qidra and Muhammad Lashein, both from Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.
With all commercial crossings into Gaza closed except for the southernmost Kerem Shalom terminal, which remains strictly controlled by Israel under its terms of siege, the tunnels provide a vital access point for goods that remain prohibited, like medications and building materials.
Since January, the tunnels have been the sole means of import for the Gaza Power Plant, which imports its fuel from Egypt and provides power to two thirds of Gaza residents.
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