This is one of the tunnels going to Egypt from Gaza. You’re looking down the shaft on the Gaza side, about 25 meters to the bottom. People say there are hundreds of tunnels and if you walk around Rafah, the border town in the Gaza Strip, you can see scores of tents and shacks that enclose the work of the tunnels. If Israel wanted to destroy the tunnels, it could.
Why, there is even gas coming through the tunnels. Here is a photo I took of the gas pipes; see the two four-inch black pipes in the middle ground?
The last time I was at the tunnels and looked down at the men working, I thought of the underground railroad. The people in Gaza live in bondage. The historical causes of this are complex, and we can talk about that when I get home, but the simple condition now is Bondage under Israel, with the complicity of the U.S., Egypt and even parts of Europe.
The actual fact of bondage is inarguable. No one will tell you any different, not the highest government official or the boys toiling in the tunnels. Hardly anyone in Gaza can get out; and the mass of people are being starved of a whole life, of dreams, dignity, education. The tunnels are the safety valve. If they were shut down, the situation would become so completely shocking that international condemnation would be overwhelming.
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