The bodies of four Palestinian workers were removed Sunday from a border tunnel between Egypt and blockaded Gaza.
Speaking on condition of anonymity security sources said four Palestinian workers who had gone missing last week were found dead in an underground tunnel.
Meanwhile medics said four dead bodies were received at Abu Youssef al-Najar Hospital in Rafah city to the south of Gaza Strip.
Over recent years a number of Palestinian workers were killed in border tunnels after the Egyptian military flooded the border area between the Egyptian part of Rafah city and the besieged Gaza Strip with sea water demolishing a number of tunnels.
An Israeli blockade severely restricts the movement of people and goods into and out of the territory and Egypt’s sole border with Gaza—Rafah crossing—has also remained largely closed since the toppling of the democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
In light of Egypt’s systematic attempts to destroy the tunnels in Gaza and keep a tight rein on the border area the tunnels have remained Gaza’s sole passageway and have long been used to enter much-needed goods and life-saving medicines to over two million inhabitants in the coastal enclave. However at present smuggling across those tunnels had come to a halt due to the Egyptian vast destruction of the border area and flooding it with water.
