Byآ Abdel-Rahman Hussein First Published:آ Octoberآ 10,آ 2008 A Palestinian brings up a sack of smuggled goods from a tunnel that runs under Gaza's border with Egypt in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on October 3, 2008. Tunnel building to provide conduits for smuggled goods to enter the blockaded Gaza strip is a growth industry these days with dozens either open or under construction along the 14 kilometre border with Egypt. CAIRO: Around 30 members of the same family were arrested from a neighborhood in the border town of Rafah on suspicion of smuggling solaar gas into Gaza. According to sources in the area, 30 members of the Barahma family — part of the Barghoum tribe — were taken after security forces completely surrounded the neighborhood of Canada in Rafah all day Wednesday. Additionally, the...
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