Tunnel-A-Bride
A friend of mine was very jolly when he came to see me last week, and told me that we must celebrate because the day before his wife had arrived. I asked him where she was coming from, to which he answered that she had crawled 800 meters from Egypt to join him here in Gaza. He explained that the dowry for Egyptian brides is much lower, in fact 20 times cheaper, and so he procured a wife through a family that he knew in Egypt, and he had the money delivered to them, after which they sent their daughter off through the tunnels to crawl to a husband she had never seen before in a country that she had never been to before. He said to me that he was very happy with his bride, however when she had first popped out of the tunnel she had looked quite awful covered in sand and dirt and her clothing was all wrinkled.
A friend of mine was in Rafah a weekend ago and ran into a journalist acquaintance of hers and she asked him if he wanted to grab a coffee. He apologized but said that he had plans already to go to a café that was a bit far but served a fantastic breakfast and that he would be back in an hour or so. After he came back he explained that he had just had a lovely Egyptian breakfast in a nice café in Egypt- he had access to one of the VIP tunnels that are much more comfortable to travel through.
