16/06/2010 - 04:23 PM OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
The Israeli army radio reported that the US stopped financing the construction of the iron wall on the borders between Egypt and the Gaza Strip and summoned its engineers who were supervising the project after Hamas was able to break through it.
The radio quoted Israeli media sources as saying on Tuesday that the American administration withdrew the financial support allocated for the project, about half a billion dollars, and decided instead to give 400 million dollars to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.
It noted that president Barack Obama promised Mahmoud Abbas this amount of money during their meeting lately in Washington.
The radio affirmed that the success of Hamas Movement in penetrating the iron wall was part of the discussion that took place in Cairo between US vice president Joe Biden and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
In a separate incident, Palestinian medical sources said that a young workman was killed and another was wounded on Tuesday morning after the tunnel they were working in collapsed in Rafah border area.
This new death brings the number of Palestinian workmen who died inside tunnels during the last two years to 156 victims according to statistics conducted by human rights institutions and the government in Gaza.
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