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Rafah is a ramshackle spread of housing at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, right alongside the Egyptian border.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Rafah is a ramshackle spread of housing at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, right alongside the Egyptian border. That's the trouble. Palestinian terrorists are in the habit of digging tunnels from the Egyptian side, through which to smuggle in arms and explosives. Needless to say, they don't ask permission either from the Egyptians or from the unfortunate people under whose houses the tunnels emerge. So far the Israelis have detected and filled in somewhere between 70 and 90 of these tunnels. It is also their policy to destroy the ...

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