The tunnels have been promoted as pure work for the nation, undertaken by honest men in the service of their desperate people...while the big fish of commerce in Gaza and their criminals are the ones digging tunnels out of pure material self-interest. They have their own resistance-for-hire, because if Israel opened its crossings into Gaza to allow goods to enter, that mercenary resistance would hit the crossings with rockets to close them, in order to keep a monopoly on the trade. The Gazan people are presented in the media as a hungry people eating from rubbish bins, whereas billions of dollars have been pumped into Egypt by the buying and selling through the tunnels.