Days of Palestine, West Bank –Egyptian border police shot dead a Palestinian and arrested two others on Saturday morning after they left a smuggling tunnel in the border town of Rafah, Egyptian military sources said.
Border guard officers reportedly spotted three men walking out of a tunnel exit in area of Al-Jundi Al-Madjhoul on the Egyptian side of Rafah.
The sources said that officers shouted at the men to stop, but the men instead attempted to return to the tunnel.
As a result, officers opened fire, killing one. The other two men then stopped and were arrested.
People in the Gaza Strip, who have been living under strict Israeli-Egyptian siege, are trying to get an exit from Gaza to get food and livelihoods for their families. They used to smuggle food and construction material through the tunnels from Egypt to Gaza.
After the military coup on the first ever elected Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in July last year, the Egyptian military, with the help of European and Israeli experts, demolished all the tunnels.
They have always said that they do not opposing letting food into Gaza, but they are doing this in order to prevent Palestinian gunmen from entering into Egypt.
Egyptian officials have repeatedly accused Hamas of sending gunmen to kill Egyptian soldiers, release prisoners. Hamas has always denied accusations and asked for Egypt either to stop this “propaganda war” against it or to provide proofs on these accusations.
The latest 51-day Israeli war, which killed more than 2,160 Palestinians and wounded more than 11,000 others, battered all forms of life in the Strip and put people in despair, pushed Gazans to think of emigrating to find better life opportunities.
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