GAZA - Egyptian security forces announced Saturday the arrest of four Palestinians they said were tunnel smugglers, and the simultanious closure of 17 tunnels during a large security campaign. The seized tunnels were empty, a security sources told Ma'an, but the Palestinian workers were located on Friday morning attempting to escape the Egyptian Rafah region via a tunnel near Salah Ad-Din gate. Three of the four men are from the same family in Khan Younis, and are under 18. The fourth man, Egyptian officials said, was Salah Ad-Din No'man, 38, who was separately attempting to escape Gaza via Al-Arish.
