Several Palestinians were trapped Thursday in a weapons-smuggling tunnel they had been digging along the Gaza-Egypt border, which collapsed as a result of heavy rains in the area overnight, Palestinian sources said. Five people, all from the same family, were trapped in the rubble, Palestinian officials said. The family is from the Yabna refugee camp in Gaza. Their conditions weren't immediately known.
| Trapped like rats in a flooding tunnel, will the good news never end? |
Israeli military sources would say only that an unknown number of people were in the tunnel; the Zaka rescue service was informed that three people were trapped. Efforts were underway to rescue those trapped in the tunnel, Israel Radio reported, and Palestinian police have closed off the area. Israel Defense Forces officials said the army would help in rescue efforts, and Palestinian officers in the area were maintaining contact with the IDF. The military sources said the tunnel collapsed while an unknown number of Palestinians were digging toward an IDF outpost near Rafah in south Gaza.
so they were working to target the IDF and the IDF rescues them. the IDF is better than me.
The sources said the army had permitted two Palestinian bulldozers to enter the area to help dig out the people.
bulldozers?! did he say bulldozers?! where's the ISM when you need it? | Perfect, driving heavy construction machinery over soft ground will pack it down quite nicely. |
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