Gaza still waiting on Egypt backing

Business is down because of an Egyptian security clampdown, but smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border keep operating under the supervision of Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

The militant Hamas had hoped the Islamists who took charge in Egypt this summer - fellow members of the region’s Muslim Brotherhood – would swiftly turn the shared border crossing into a free-flowing trade route, ending Gaza’s five-year isolation from the world and making the tunnels obsolete.