Dig and dig and dig like dogs.

Inside Gaza's secret smuggling tunnels, the underground route to riches - or to death
With several tonnes of the world's most war-torn soil between us, the shouts of the Palestinian smuggling gang at the top of the tunnel's 30-foot deep shaft had become almost inaudible.
Few tunnel-diggers recorded,statement t as released in TELEGRAPH.CO.UK[By Colin Freeman, in Gaza,Last Updated: 5:37PM BST 27 Sep 2008]
. The tunnels are very dangerous - they can easily collapse I was about to die. But what can I do - I need the money to feed my family."
· 10 men in a team,each earn $15/ for digging a meter passageway.
· digging the 300 yard long passageways underneath the sandy border from the Gaza to Egypt.[ "Tunnel Town"].All acknowdeged it’s a risky living better than waiting for death
· last year after Gaza fell under the control of the militant Palestinian faction Hamas, the blockade was designed to make Hamas unpopular with Gaza's 1.4 million residents by banning virtually all trade with the outside world.
·But deep beneath the watchtowers and fences of Gaza's 10-mile long border with Egypt, a sprawling warren of hand-dug burrows now supplies everything from food, petrol and designer jeans through to guns, drugs and black market Marlboro cigarettes
· "There was even a bride from Egypt who came through one recently to get married to a man in Gaza." [MichaelSne: This is interesting power of love!]
· Tunnel gangs charge premiums of up to 150 per cent on their cargos, raking in tens of thousands of dollars a week and making the excavation business one of Gaza's few growth industries.
· The first tunnels underneath Gaza's perimeters were dug years ago, when they were they were primarily to smuggle weapons and explosives for use against Israel.
· Entering one requires perching precariously on a makeshift wooden chairlift, which is then lowered down the 30 foot deep shaft by a winch powered by a sputtering petrol generator.
· Diggers then use small electric drills to carve a path through the thick clay soil, steering their way by hand-held compass.
· As in the Second World War film classic The Great Escape, the tunnel's walls are propped up with makeshift wooden planks, and equipped with ventilation pumps to freshen the musty, damp air at the bottom.
·Tunnel collapses have led to dozens of fatalaties - so many that some local shops honour tunnellers in the same fashion as "martyred" local militants, displaying pictures of them clutching spades and drills rather than assault rifles.
· Tunnel entrepreneurs are now enjoying such good business, however, that they now have a vested interest in the status quo.
· Meanwhile, the list of tunnel "martyrs" continues to grow. The day after The Sunday Telegraph visited, a neighbouring tunnel at Rafah collapsed, killing three people and injuring five others.