GAZA
Yasir el-Benna
The blockade of the Gaza Strip continues and the tunnels in Rafah on the Egypt-Gaza border still work as an industry to fulfill the needs of the people.
The chief of the workers in the tunnel, Abu Mohammed, told Anadolu Agency on Friday that the workers in the tunnel earned 15-20 dollars per day and took a high risk to do their work.
Abu Mohammed pointed out that especially during the transfer of gas bottles (for use in the kitchen) blasts happened very often and added, "These people take the fatal risk. They use the tunnels for transport. People are trapped in these tunnels after such blasts."
Abu Mohammed said, "the initiative by the Egyptian government to close the tunnels affected us in a negative way. Before that we were tired of working but everything stands still now."
Israel did not allow import bulldozers into Gaza, Abu Mohammed reminded and said, "We smuggle these bulldozers through the tunnels from Egypt but it costs us a lot."
