Plight of the Unpeople: Israel Occupation Jets Strike Gaza Ghetto Blockade-Busting Tunnels

2009-01-28

Israel Occupation Jets Strike Gaza Ghetto Blockade-Busting Tunnels

Israeli warplanes have pounded food and medicine smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border after a Palestinian bomb killed an Israeli militant.

The border flare-up came 10 days into an informal ceasefire.

It also came just hours before President Barack Obama's new Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, was due to meet Israeli leaders.

The military said the Israeli militant was killed yesterday on Israel's frontier with the Gaza Ghetto by a roadside bomb planted on the Gaza side.

Israel sent tanks and bulldozers into northern Gaza to plough up the attack site and launched an airstrike that wounded a Hamas soldier.

Meanwhile, residents said two Israeli air strikes early today targeted smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border. They said the strikes sent hundreds of people fleeing.

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