Egyptian flooding drowns Gaza’s tunnel business
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in. For Bakeer, 61, the fact that Egypt, once a gateway to the world for Gaza's 1.8 million Palestinians, was behind his family's suffering, was particularly painful. “We respect our neighbors, we love Egypt, but our neighbors are making our life harder,” he said in his one-storey unfinished cinder block house, around which water seeps and cracks in the ground are growing wider.
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