Egypt Determined...

...to keep the sewer rats out:

"...the group's refusal to sign a reconciliation agreement with its secular Fatah rivals or agree to a prisoner swap with Israel through Egyptian mediation now appear to be endangering relations.

After years of largely ignoring the tunnel smuggling - which primarily brings in much-needed household goods but is also used by Hamas to import weapons and money - Egypt has begun building a massive underground wall."

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"From now on, Hamas is in a tight spot. It is under a full blockade, the tunnels used to smuggle funding from Iran will be shut down and the population will only have the bare minimum needed to survive," he adds."

I wonder if both Egypt and Israel regret the results of the '67 war. At least they could have maintained more control over subsequent developments in that godforsaken land and possibly even achieved the long sought goal of a Palestinian state. As long as there is thuggish regime in power there will never be anything remotely approaching normalcy for the Pals on that side of ancient Palestine.