21 SURVIVE FLOODING OF RAFAH BORDER TUNNEL IN BESIEGED GAZA AFTER EGYPT PUMPS IN SEAWATER
On Tuesday 21 Palestinian labourers were working in a privately owned smuggling tunnel in besieged Gaza's Rafah, when Egypt's army flooded it pumping in seawater as part of destroying 20 tunnels on the border and keeping up the siege of Gaza.
There have been contradictory claims about the fate of the workers, but it appears that the correct claim is that 7 were able to escape the tunnel as seawater started to come in and that the 14 others were rescued after several hours.
The claim that all 14 would have been killed seems to have been wrong.
Egypt's pumping of seawater in the ground has also led to damage to agricultural land near the border and salt water is entering the Gaza aquifer.
The Rafah border crossing is currently again closed.
On Wednesday six Israeli military vehicles, 3 tanks and 3 armoured bulldozers, crossed the border into Gaza and destroyed agricultural land 'among random gunfire' near the al-Bureij refugee camp. No injuries were reported.
SOURCES:
14 Palestinians missing in border tunnel after Egypt pumps in seawater
14 Palestinian workers lost in Gaza tunnel drowned by Egypt
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14 rescued from flooded Gaza tunnel
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Limited incursion of Israeli bulldozers east of Al Bureij
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