Again and again, the city of tunnels is crumbling after the tunnels have rapidly become on the increase and the spaces among them have been abated, in addition to other factors which still lurch that city such as the Israeli bombardment. Three Palestinian brothers were killed on Friday in the collapse of a tunnel along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt, medics said.A fourth Palestinian, who was also working in the tunnel near Rafah, was seriously wounded, the sources said.
Deadly cave-ins are common in the tunnels used to smuggle food, goods and, according to Israel, weapons and explosives into the besieged Gaza Strip. But, tunnels mostly used for Food stuff as the crossings are closed most of the time.
The Palestinians started working in tunnels successively after Hamas' takeover amid July 2007. Since then, Israel's stringent blockade forced Gazans to make tunnels as a public phenomenon with by-laws even if not written.
Ahmed, 27 years old, a contributor to a border tunnel, complained the strict Egyptian procedures which obliged him increase his tunnel to 400 meters towards Egypt not to lose his lifeblood. He said "Digging our tunnel cost us around $ 100.000 and still it needs $ 20.000 to inaugurate it. We haven't used any entry item so far; the bombardment of the recent war obliged us to stop digging for our safety."
Ahmed continued that after three years of his graduation, he didn't find an appropriate work in Gaza Strip, until he found partners to accompany his new project "Digging a tunnel", in spite of, as he acknowledged, this project may not be gold as it might have been before.
He went on to say "Before the recent Israeli war, working at tunnels was so comfortable and profitable at the same time, but having such a security follow-up did create intricacy and heavy losses."
To him, like many other tunnels' owners in Rafah City south of Gaza, tunnels operate more than 6000 laborers directly, while the local market has become heavily dependent upon them, notably during the recent months.
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