Egypt Demolishes Gaza Humanitarian Tunnels

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Alwaght- Egypt has destroyed 31 humanitarian tunnels connecting the besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip and Egypt.
In October, Egyptian forces "discovered and successfully destroyed 31 tunnels on the border line of Rafah city", army spokesman Brigadier-General Mohamed Samir said in a statement on Sunday, referring to a city at the Egypt-Gaza border.
The announcements by Egyptian army's announcement came the same day as a meeting between Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo.
Sisi claimed that Egypt's measures in the Gaza border area were intended to "secure the borders" and that the Rafah crossing could operate "normally" if the PA were to take control of it.
Egypt has been keeping closed the Rafah border crossing, Gaza’s only land terminal that bypasses occupied territories borders controlled by the Israeli regime, since the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, took control of the coastal strip in 2007. Hamas has close ties with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood which has been declared as a terrorist group by the current military-backed regime in Cairo.
When Mohamed Morsi served as the first democratically elected President of Egypt, from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013, he ordered the opening of Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip.
Morsi, affiliated with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, was elected as the country’s president in 2012 but was ousted only a year later in a military coup led Sisi the then army chief, Sisi.
Sisi, who had also served as military chief under former dictator Hosni Mubarak, later campaigned for and won the country’s presidency in controversial elections in June 2014.
Palestinians in Gaza are living under inhuman conditions due to the cruel siege imposed by the Israeli regime and also partly Egypt. The tunnels to Gaza are used by Palestinians to smuggle essential goods, such as medicine, foodstuffs and construction materials.
In mid-June, the Egyptian military said Cairo had demolished nearly 1,430 underground tunnels between the country and the blockaded area over the previous 18 months.
Some 1.8 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip are living in what is called the world's largest open-air prison as the Israeli regime retains full control of the airspace, territorial waters and border crossings of the territory.
The coastal strip has been under the Israeli air, sea and land blockade since 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.

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