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July 19, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1685398,00.html

The Secret World Beneath the Israeli-Egyptian Border

(London Sunday Times) Marie Colvin - I lived in Rafah for a week with the "tunnel people" who smuggle weapons from Egypt to Gaza. A Kalashnikov rifle sells for $200 on the Egyptian side, but fetches $2,000 in Gaza. Bullets - 50 cents in Egypt, $8 in Gaza - are even more profitable. The tunnels are financed by wealthy families who run them as businesses. Guns used to come from Egypt and Yemen; now the great bulk come from Darfur in Sudan, where civil war is raging.

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