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Photo Essay: Gaza’s (Literal) Underground Economy
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Tunnel vision: A woman checks out televisions smuggled from Egypt on sale in Rafah Oct. 27. Although essentials such as food and gasoline are smuggled through tunnels, so are less essential goods such as cigarettes, lingerie, and laptop computers. Even most residents of Gaza’s zoo arrived via the subterranean passages known as hayyeh, including two lion cubs, a parrot who can ask for a kiss in Arabic, and three gazelles, one of which bit smugglers who forgot to drug it before the journey. It’s just a matter of time before an elephant can lumber in, the zoo’s manager joked to the Associated Press.

 

Photo: SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images



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