GAZA CITY: A 33-year-old Palestinian man was killed on Sunday when a smuggling tunnel he was in between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Egypt collapsed, medics said.

Six other people were rescued in the collapse, they said.

Palestinians often die in cave-ins and other mishaps in the vast network of smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza.

Israel and Egypt have kept the territory sealed to all but essential humanitarian goods since the Islamist Hamas movement seized the territory two years ago.

Israel heavily bombed the network of smuggling tunnels during its 22-day offensive against Hamas at the turn of the year, but many of the tunnels were quickly rebuilt. -AFP