"Complimentary tour of the Rafah tunnels." I received this offer a few weeks after arriving in Gaza. In a conversation I was having with my colleague, Joe Catron, it came up that a friend of ours from Gaza City had given an open invitation for us to tour the tunnels. For the purpose of this article we'll refer to her as "X".
After reading about much of the controversy of the tunnels and the political obstacles they have posed for Hamas since officially taking over operations in 2007, I jumped at the proposition.
Alexandra Robinson writes for Al-Ahram Weekly, where this essay originally appeared.
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