The ‘Jerusalem Post' journal reported late Saturday, that the Egyptian troops stationed at Rafah border, north Sinai, immersed the smuggling tunnels spread to the south along with the Gaza Strip by sea waters, al-Bawaba News reported. ‘The Egyptian forces used giant water pipes to pump water from the Mediterranean towards the tunnels aimed of dumping, while smugglers, from the Gaza Strip side, started to drain out water,' the journal added, signaling to the penalty posed by Egyptian authorities which includes life sentence upon those accused of such attempts. It pointed out that smugglers use these tunnels to smuggle heavy weapons to some of the armed groups in north Sinai from the Gaza Strip.
