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Video: Gaza's underground lifelines Al Jazeera English TV, Oct 5, 2008
The closure of Gaza's border crossings has created a multi-million-dollar economy - underneath the Palestinian territory's frontier with Egypt. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from the Gaza-Egypt border on the intricate network of tunnels that was once used for smuggling weapons and people and is now a vital route into Gaza for medicine, food, and fuel supplies.
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