Israel announces completion of Gaza Barrier to end threat from attack tunnels
In the shadow of a 10-meter-high concrete wall, Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that after three and a half years and 3.5 billion NIS (1.1 billion US dollars), the Ministry of Defense was building a massive barrier around the Gaza Strip above underground, from Israel hopes it will end the threat of cross-border attack tunnels from the Palestinian enclave.
“This barrier, a first-rate creative, technological project, denies Hamas any of the skills it was trying to develop and puts a wall of iron, sensors and concrete between it and the people of the south,” Gantz said at the ceremony.
Gantz warns that Israel may currently experience a “calm before the storm” after Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups were recently threatened for their slow reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz Announces Israel Has Completed Construction of Massive Barrier Around Gaza Strip to End Threat of Cross-Border Attack Tunnels (Ariel Hermony / Department of Defense)
Since the 11-day conflict in Gaza in May, Israel and Hamas have been negotiating an extended ceasefire that would bring additional aid and international aid to Gaza in exchange for calm. However, Israel has made full reconstruction contingent on the return of two Israeli civilians and the remains of two IDF soldiers from captivity by Hamas, which the terrorist group is demanding in exchange for the release of large numbers of Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons. Jerusalem refused.
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