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Israel builds a wall to protect the highway near the Gaza Strip. PHOTO/Reuters
The country’s defense ministry said on Thursday (5/1/2023) that the construction of a 4.6-kilometer wall on the border with the Gaza Strip aims to protect Israeli cities from attacks.
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As reported by Arab News, work has begun on a security corridor project in the Gaza Strip, which aims to allow the movement of citizens in times of emergency without fear of being attacked.
Israel had previously built a concrete wall along an open area of the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip after Palestinian factions carried out an operation using Kornet missiles against Israeli military vehicles in 2019.
The concrete wall was supplemented with smart technology, cost about 100 million shekels ($27.8 million), and was built alongside railroad tracks to protect the railways from Palestinian militants.
Palestinian fighters also use the tunnels to enter areas under Israeli control, especially during the 2014 war that lasted more than 50 days. Anti-tank missiles were also fired at Israeli vehicles during various rounds of the escalation.
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Construction of the underground wall in 2017 involved more than 1,200 workers at a cost of $1.2 billion. The above-ground concrete wall includes dozens of control towers and hundreds of cameras, monitoring and alarm devices. The wall also extends several kilometers out to sea and is monitored via control rooms and operations that simulate offensive and infiltration maneuvers.
A source close to the military wing of Hamas, who declined to be identified, told Arab News that Israel’s heavy spending on the security wall was a loss.
