And the tunnels are still there

Among the military objectives of the Israeli barbaric campaign was to cut the weapons smuggling to the sector through the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt still it seems after all those weeks and after all those threats the tunnels are still there !!

Gaza tunnels back in business

According to construction and civil engineering expert Mamdouh Hamza building a tunnel does not  take a lot of time because of the short distance between Egyptian Rafah and Palestinian Rafah.
By the way these tunnels are not originally digged to smuggle weapons only but rather to smuggle food and other needed supplies in the sector. The blockade is not over unfortunately.
You do not expect someone innocent staying in  a jail not to try to escape especially that no one is really helping him , it is just the “shawshank redemption”, the Palestinians do not try to escape and leave their land but rather they want a window to the outside world. For God Sake any group of people in the world under a bitter ugly siege will do the same thing .
Already weapons are not smuggled only through tunnels from Egypt but also from Israel, yet no one is speaking about this !?
By the way the timing of releasing these photos and reports is so interesting.It is in the same time that the Egyptian regime declared that it refuses the American-Israeli security agreement and also officially denying this so-called written agreement between Egypt and Israel. Already I do not understand this game the Egyptian regime is playing taking in consideration currently it is not playing well at !! I get this contradicting messages that I do not understand.
It is against Hamas officially then it praises the resistance !! It closes the crossings then says no foreign supervision on our borders or national waters !!
Does the regime play some sort of political game with the Americans and Israelis to gain something  ???
Does it fool the public in Egypt with these actions and statements where as it continues its fully cooperation with the Israelis and Americans ??
Anyhow back to our main topic in the post. I am happy that the tunnels are back as long as the blockade is still there. Gaza won’t go down for sure.

Update# 1 :

Please read this essay from JP "Don Count on Egypt to stop weapons smuggling".
It is so interesting to know that the Israelis do not trust Egypt after all what it has done. According to the Israelis who wrote this essay Cairo won't stop the weapons smuggling because:

• It  is playing a political game because it fears the anger of  public.
• Its security officers take bribes to smuggle weapons because of their small salaries "check out this point"

To illustrate the point: Several weeks ago, the Palestinians published a report that the Egyptians had started to seriously combat the smuggling tunnels between the Egyptian and Palestinian sides of Rafah. The Egyptians initiated an inquiry to discover "who" suddenly became so motivated, and discovered that it was an Egyptian official who did not receive a big enough reward from of the tunnel operators and decided to teach them a lesson. The Egyptians immediately found a different posting for this hyperactive official. 

 Now the two brainy journalists who wrote those essay said that the Egyptian Bedouins the following :

  These tribes do not speak Egyptian Arabic, they are not really an integral part of Egyptian culture, and they do not subscribe to Egyptian political ethos.

I hate to tell them that also the Egyptians in Upper Egypt do not speak the Egyptian Arabic and most of the Egyptians are subscribers to the Egyptian political ethos.
I wish that those Israeli admit that most the weapons come from their side not from our side ,the so-called Iran supply to Hamas does not take place through our borders but rather from their borders !!

 Update#2 :

There are some talk that Israel will hit the tunnels area , which is our borders area with depleted Uranium to end it for once and for all!!!! I do not know if it is a threat or just a talk or what ??
Of course Israel would not think for one second in this option if we had a powerful regime !!
It is worth to say the IAEA said that it would investigation that the accusation against Israel of using depleted Uranium against the civilians of Gaza , of course this talk confirms the fact that they have it and they are ready to use it in this populated area !!
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