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A Palestinian cleans a tunnel flooded by Egypt to block smuggling trade

A Palestinian cleans a tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2013 . The Gaza Strip’s Hamas government and local smugglers accused Egypt Tuesday of flooding cross-border tunnels with sewage water in order to halt a thriving smuggling trade that has helped prop the local economy for more than five years. <AP Photo/Hatem Moussa>

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