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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Gazan man killed in Islamic Jihad tunnel collapse
2016-09-30
[IsraelTimes] Several others injured as underground passage, reportedly reaching into Israel, gives way in northern region of coastal enclave.

At least one Paleostinian was killed when a tunnel under the border with Israel collapsed in the northern Gazoo Strip on Thursday, an official in the Strip said.

The Gazoo Health Ministry said the accident while working in a "military tunnel" used by the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 terror group. It said Ahmed Mayyat was killed and three others were maimed Thursday without elaborating.

Mayyat was a local contractor hired by the Islamic Jihad to remove a bomb from the tunnel, the group said.
...and then the tunnel collapsed, suggesting he was unsuccessful. But why would they want to remove the bomb?
Local media reported he also worked for several international aid organizations in Gazoo on a freelance basis.
Why would international aid organizations in Gaza need to hire a bomb remover?
There were conflicting reports on the number of fatalities in the incident. The Maan News Agency reported one person was killed and several serious injured. Israel’s Channel 2 reported that three Paleostinian diggers died in the cave-in.

According to the Paleostinian news agency Maan, the tunnel ran beneath the border between the coastal enclave and Israel, near Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Strip. The collapse is the latest in a series of cave-ins to claim Paleostinian lives over the past year. Israeli military officials have refused to say whether they are causing the collapses.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  :) made my day Frank.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-09-30 11:24  

#2  Israeli military officials have refused to say whether they are causing the collapses.

Carl Spackler: [preparing to dynamite the gopher tunnel] In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.
Posted by: Frank G   2016-09-30 08:44  

#1  Decades ago sophisticated techniques were instituted to stop North Korean tunneling into South Korea. Today in the USA, cities and towns employ common "potholing" and vacuum excavation to locate underground utilities, and I'm sure the Israelis have improved on that technique. If archaeologists have devices that can find holes in pyramids...
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262   2016-09-30 07:08  

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