The Sinai attack causes the closing of the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt

The tunnels linking Gaza with Egypt and are a crucial source of supply for the band, have been sealed after the attack on Sunday night in the Sinai from Egypt. A suspected jihadist group killed 16 Egyptian soldiers near the border of the Gaza Strip, stole cars and then one of them got into Israel, where he was struck by Israeli aircraft. Egypt has promised to bring law and order to the chaotic Sinai. On Wednesday, he began to clog the network of underground passages by entering all kinds of goods-from people and cars to noodle through cement, said an Egyptian official source told Reuters. Israel accuses the Islamist movement Hamas, as head of government of Gaza, using tunnels to smuggle arms Gaza. Furthermore, the authorities have decided to close the strip also indefinitely tunnels, as explained, for safety reasons. The idea is that if any member of the armed group that had participated in the attack intention to enter or leave Gaza could not. In closing, the Hamas Islamist government also sends the message to Israel that the people of Gaza has nothing to do with what happened on Sunday night, despite accusations by the Egyptian Army. The Egyptian military indicated that the attackers had the complicity of an armed group in Gaza, they explained, mortars fired from Gaza at the time of the attack.Hamas denies any involvement and accused Palestinian but Israel of being behind the attack. Holds the Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh that "the method used in the attack confirms any Israeli involvement in order to achieve its security objectives and to create tension on the border with Egypt and destroy the joint efforts to end the blockade of Gaza. " The strip , a narrow piece of land and hiperpoblado Palestinian is under Israeli embargo for more than five years. The blockade prevents exceptions, the free flow of over a million and half people and goods.Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, collaborated with the Israelis in maintaining the embargo. But after the fall of dictator last year, the Rafah crossing linking Gaza with Egypt, opened to traffic in persons with certain permits, under certain conditions. The triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian president last June , filled of the Hamas government hopes that its ideological partners would open wide the gates of Gaza. The attack in Sinai has blown up any aspirations of normality at the border.