A Palestinian smuggler is raised on a winch out of a tunnel that runs under the border between southern Gaza and Egypt, in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on 24, June 2008. Egypt told Israel today that it will keep its Rafah crossing with Gaza closed until the fate of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is resolved, a senior Israeli official said. Israel has eased some of its restrictions on Gaza as part of a truce with Palestinian militants that began last week, but made any opening of Rafah, the only crossing that bypasses Israel, conditional on a prisoner swap. Last week Ismail Haniya said that despite the truce with Israel smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip would not stop. Getty Images logo Getty Images 44 months ago

A Palestinian smuggler is raised on a winch out of a tunnel that runs under the border between southern Gaza and Egypt, in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on 24, June 2008. Egypt told Israel today that it will keep its Rafah crossing with Gaza closed until the fate of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is resolved, a senior Israeli official said. Israel has eased some of its restrictions on Gaza as part of a truce with Palestinian militants that began last week, but made any opening of Rafah, the only crossing that bypasses Israel, conditional on a prisoner swap. Last week Ismail Haniya said that despite the truce with Israel smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip would not stop.

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