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Egypt moves to seal Gaza tunnels after border attack
Source: Reuters
Egypt moves to seal Gaza tunnels after border attack
By Yusri Mohamed
RAFAH, Egypt | Tue Aug 7, 2012 1:23pm EDT
(Reuters) - Egypt began to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian militants.
As officials considered how to respond to the deadliest assault along Egypt's tense Sinai Peninsula border with Israel and Gaza in decades, crowds of angry mourners wept at the military funeral of the slain guards in Cairo.
Lawlessness in the rugged desert has spread since the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in an uprising 18 months ago and the election of an Islamist successor whose commitment to security cooperation with Israel has yet to be tested.
A Reuters reporter in the border town of Rafah said heavy equipment was brought to the Egyptian side of the tunnels, which are used to smuggle people to and from Gaza as well as food and fuel that are a lifeline for the small territory's population.
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By Yusri Mohamed
RAFAH, Egypt | Tue Aug 7, 2012 1:23pm EDT
(Reuters) - Egypt began to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian militants.
As officials considered how to respond to the deadliest assault along Egypt's tense Sinai Peninsula border with Israel and Gaza in decades, crowds of angry mourners wept at the military funeral of the slain guards in Cairo.
Lawlessness in the rugged desert has spread since the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in an uprising 18 months ago and the election of an Islamist successor whose commitment to security cooperation with Israel has yet to be tested.
A Reuters reporter in the border town of Rafah said heavy equipment was brought to the Egyptian side of the tunnels, which are used to smuggle people to and from Gaza as well as food and fuel that are a lifeline for the small territory's population.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/07/us-egypt-gaza-tunnels-idUSBRE8760MT20120807
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