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Palestinian contraband smugglers offer an inside look
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Gaza, truce, Israel 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for June 19, 2008.

The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas went into effect Thursday morning at 6 A.M., and should the truce hold, Israel will gradually reopen Gaza's border crossings, allowing goods to enter the coastal territory that has been all but closed off since Hamas seized power in June 2007.

But regardless of the security situation on the ground, Palestinian militants under ground, in so-called "downtown Rafah," have been busy smuggling contraband and weapons into the Strip from Egypt.
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They recently allowed television cameras to join them in one of the tunnels, which is 20 meters deep and 900 meters long, to document some of their activities.


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