Palestinian workers seen inside a smuggling tunnel dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip on October 13, 2013. Hamas is struggling to meet its payroll in the Gaza Strip, where income from taxes has been badly hit since neighbouring Egypt started destroying a network of tunnels used to smuggle food, fuel and weapons into the Islamist-run enclave, as Israeli media said that the Israeli army last Thursday discovered a large tunnel linking the Gaza Strip and southern “Israel”, up to a distance of 2.5 kilometers, and prepared to kidnap soldiers. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90
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