Egyptian Policeman Shot, Wounded Near Gaza Border

The gunmen escaped but police assume they are smugglers, who have attacked similar warehouses in the past.

Gunmen shot and wounded an Egyptian policeman guarding a warehouse of goods seized en route to tunnels near the Gaza border, security sources said on Tuesday.

The 21-year-old policeman, named as Fathi Salman Mohamed, was taken to hospital in the border town of Rafah on Monday night with a wound in his right shoulder and is in a stable condition, they said.

The gunmen escaped but police assume they are smugglers, who have attacked similar warehouses in the past, they said.

The hundreds of tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border were among the targets in Israel's recent offensive against Gaza.

Palestinians in the coastal enclave use them to smuggle in weapons and commercial goods, circumventing an Israeli-led blockade.