GAZA, Sept 4 (NNN-PNN) – Three Palestinian men were found dead yesterday, inside a smuggling tunnel underneath the borderline area between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, medics and a security official said.
Paramedics said, they were informed that three workers, who worked in a smuggling tunnel had been missing since Thursday morning. Paramedics and rescue crews have taken out the three bodies from the tunnel and sent them to hospital, Eyad al-Bozzom, spokesman of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, said, in a press statement.
The Palestinian factions, including Hamas, called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate the cause of the three workers’ death, adding, they hold Egypt responsible for their deaths.
Israel imposed a tight blockade on the Gaza Strip, after Hamas seized control of the coastal enclave in 2007.
To defy the blockade, the Palestinians dug tunnels underneath the borders with Egypt, to get their supplies of fuels, food, medicine and raw materials for construction, industry and agriculture.
In 2013, the Egyptian army launched a military campaign that targeted the tunnels, destroying more than 95 percent of them.
