Gaza – Ma'an – A tunnel collapsed in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring a number of people.The last sentence seems irrelevant. The Al-Bureij camp is in central Gaza, far from the border with Egypt.
The casualties are believed to have suffocated in the incident, according to Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of emergency and ambulance department in the Palestinian ministry of health.
Tunnels on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt are frequently used for smuggling goods, particularly weapons into Gaza from Egypt.
It is, however, relatively close to the Israeli security border in Gaza (see here for a huge detailed map.)
The most obvious explanation is that a large effort was underway to tunnel under the border to attack Israeli civilians, or to attempt to kidnap another Israeli soldier. Judging from the map, it could easily have been a mile long.
Imagine what Gazans could accomplish if they put their energy, creativity and talents to purposes other than killing Jews?
cross-posted to Yourish