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Fatwa bans work in Gaza Strip tunnels
Jan. 13, 2010
KHALED ABU TOAMEH , THE JERUSALEM POST
At the request of the Palestinian Authority, an Islamic scholar 
published a fatwa on Tuesday banning Muslims from digging or working in 
tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
The fatwa is the first of its kind and is seen in the context of the 
PA's efforts to undermine Hamas's rule in the Gaza Strip. It's seen by 
Palestinians as yet another sign of mounting tensions between the PA and 
Hamas despite attempts by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Qatar to 
resolve the power struggle between the two parties.
The fatwa also comes in response to the death of dozens of Palestinian 
smugglers involved in the tunnel industry over the past three years.
Sheikh Muhammad bin Salman Abu Jamea, the scholar who issued the fatwa, 
cited a number of reasons for his decision.
He said that the main reason was that about 300 Palestinians have been 
killed while working in the tunnels.
"The owners of the tunnels exploit the poor workers and employ them as 
slaves under the worst conditions," he said.
Abu Jamea condemned another fatwa issued by a Muslim scholar in the Gaza 
Strip that permitted tunnel owners to employ laborers under harsh 
conditions. That fatwa ruled that tunnel owners would pay only $9,000 in 
compensation to each family whose unmarried son is killed while digging 
or smuggling, while the family of a married laborer would receive $11,000.
Abu Jamea condemned the tunnel owners as "merchants and princes of war 
who have no value or respect for the blood of Muslims."
Addressing the tunnel owners and the scholar who okayed their business, 
the new fatwa asked: "Have you forgotten how many homes have been 
destroyed because of the death of their sons? Do you know how many 
mothers have lost their beloved ones and how many wives have been 
widowed and children orphaned?"
Abu Jamea also cited the smuggling of weapons as a reason behind his 
decision to ban work in the tunnels.
"Don't the arms dealers know that trading in weapons during the period 
of civil strife [between Hamas and Fatah] is haram [religiously 
forbidden]?" he asked, adding that the weapons were being used by 
"rebels" to continue "sowing dissension among Palestinians."
He also pointed out that the tunnels were being used to smuggle into 
Gaza alcohol and drugs and other merchandise that was being exploited by 
manipulative merchants to make illegal profits.
In a related development, a Hamas-affiliated Web site has quoted a 
London-based Arab human rights organization as saying that the Egyptians 
have been using poisonous gas against Palestinians working in the 
hundreds of tunnels between Gaza and Sinai.
The organization said that an investigation into the death of 54 
smugglers revealed that at least 36 of them died after being sprayed 
with lethal gas from the Egyptian side of the border.

 Abu Jamea
quanti soldi prende da Mubarak per fare fatwe che giustificano la
compartecipazione egiziana allo strangolamento di Gaza? CHissà perchè
questa fatwe vengono fuori solo adesso. Finchè le mazzette per i
tunnel arrivavano  copiose al Cairo, i tunnel non erano un problema...