The Tunnels of Gaza (35 images)

A Palestinian youth works as a smuggler in a tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on September 30, 2012.. Since last month, Egyptian military have destroyed about 30 tunnels and blocked more which were used for smuggling to and from the Gaza Strip. The tunnels are a vital lifeline for supplies of food, clothes, building materials and fuel into the impoverished Palestinian territory subjected to an Israeli blockade since 2006. UPI/Ismael Mohamad

Palestinians try to extinguish a fire in a tunnel that is used to smuggle fuel into Gaza from Egypt, in Rafah in southern Gaza on November 21, 2011. Israel and Egypt have blockaded Gaza since the militant group Hamas seized power there in 2007. UPI/Ismael Mohamad

Palestinians remove a body from a smuggling tunnel which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike near the border between Egypt and the Gaza on January 8, 2010. Israeli air strikes hit seven targets in Gaza killing three men and wounding another, Palestinian medics said. The casualties occurred near Gaza's border with Egypt when Israeli jets bombed tunnels which Palestinians use to smuggle goods into the besieged coastal strip, medics and Hamas security officials said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad

A Palestinian organizes gas canister that were smuggled through a tunnel that runs under the border between southern Gaza and Egypt in Rafah, Gaza Strip on November 28, 2008. Tunnels provide the only link between the Gaza and Egypt after Israel said it was keeping all border crossings with the Gaza sealed in response to militant attacks on Israel. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)