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Palestinian tunnel workers watch Egyptian military soldiers command Egyptian excavators working on destroying the smuggling tunnels beneath the Egypt-Gaza border seen from Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Egypt has sealed smuggling tunnels and blocked most passenger traffic in the toughest border restrictions on the Gaza Strip in recent years, causing millions of dollars of economic losses and prompting concerns among Gaza's Hamas rulers that the territory is being swept up in the Egyptian military's crackdown on Islamists.