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Related: About this forumHamas in Gaza is running out of friends
RAFAH, Gaza Strip Emad the smuggler was covered in dust, watching buckets of cement and gravel emerge on a crude trolley from the bowels of his tunnel beneath the Egyptian border.
He is one of the few still doing this kind of work.
In the weeks since Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was ousted in a coup and his allies in the Muslim Brotherhood were declared enemies of the state, Egypts military has shut down most of the tunnels that serve as a lifeline for Hamas, the Islamist political and militant organization that governs the Gaza Strip.
The army now runs Egypt and the army hates Hamas, said Emad, who declined to give his full name because the tunnels are, at least technically, illegal. They could care less what happens to Gaza.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/hamas-in-gaza-is-running-out-of-friends/2013/08/24/7dd4560e-0b04-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014_story.html
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)Bring some relief to the people of Gaza.
delrem
(9,688 posts)which reinstated the identical power structure as under Mubarak, but without Mubarak fronting it, "hate Hamas"?
Is it because they're told to "hate Hamas" by their funders?
Could it be as simple as that?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)In fact, this is something that came up even before Morsi was deposed.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Just speculation, of course - -