Gaza -- Ma'an -- A 33-year-old Palestinian was burned to death in a tunnel collapse under the border between Gaza and Egypt on Sunday, a medical official told Ma'an. Inflammable dirt. Another Palestinian invention...
Two more Palestinians were injured in the collapse and six others were still missing by Sunday afternoon, according to Rafah Abdallah Shahada, director of Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
Shahada added that the hospital had received the body of Sami Qishta, 33, and two others who sustained burns and were listed in moderate condition. There was no word on the six missing Palestinians.
The tunnel industry is notoriously dangerous, and dozens of workers are killed each year in workplace accidents. Above the regular collapse of the sandy tunnels, Israeli and Egyptian border police routinely throw explosives into their access points, or flood the passages with water or fuel.
OSHA shall hear of this!
What's OSHA?
More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in such incidents since the siege on Gaza began in 2007.
It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse or burns, but just last Monday two young Gazans were killed and eight others injured when benzene, which was being smuggled through, began to leak. Four workers were injured when one of the Gaza smuggling tunnels in Rafah collapsed two weeks earlier.
Smoke, Mahmoud?
Sure, why not...