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With more than a thousand smuggling tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border, the supply food and goods is so plentiful in the markets of Gaza that even luxury items like watches, seen here for sale December 20, 2009 are for sale in the market stalls in Rafah, Gaza. Despite the 22 day Israeli offensive last year in Gaza, tunnels have proliferated to the point where the vast supply of goods has exceeded demand, causing prices to dramatically fall and tunnel profits to plummet.

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Copyright: 2009 Scott Nelson
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With more than a thousand smuggling tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border, the supply food and goods is so plentiful in the markets of Gaza that even luxury items like watches, seen here for sale December 20, 2009 are for sale in the market stalls in Rafah, Gaza. Despite the 22 day Israeli offensive last year in Gaza, tunnels have proliferated to the point where the vast supply of goods has exceeded demand, causing prices to dramatically fall and tunnel profits to plummet.