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The anti-tunnel barrier along the Gaza–Israel border (sometimes referred to as the smart wall on the Israel–Gaza border) [1] [2] [3] is an underground slurry wall constructed by Israel along the entire 40-kilometer (25 mi) length of the Gaza–Israel border to prevent infiltration into Israel by digging tunnels under the Gaza–Israel barrier.
The Gaza–Israel barrier (sometimes called the Iron Wall [1] [2] [3]) is a border barrier located on the Israeli side of the Gaza–Israel border. [4] Before the Israel–Hamas war, the Erez Crossing, in the north of the Gaza Strip, used to be the only crossing point for people and goods coming from Israel into the Gaza Strip.
Israel on Tuesday announced the completion of a sensor-equipped underground wall on its side of the Gaza border, a counter-measure developed after Hamas militants used tunnels to blindside its ...
In May 2016, the IDF located a cross-border tunnel exiting near the area of Holit that had apparently been rebuilt as a bypass after initially being destroyed during Operation Protective Edge. [112] In the summer of 2017, Israel began the construction of a border wall which stretched several meters underground to counter tunnel assaults. [113]
GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) - Israeli forces battling Hamas said they had uncovered an unusually large concrete and iron-girded tunnel, designed to carry carloads of militant fighters from Gaza ...
Gaza has a nearly 60-kilometer (37-mile) border with Israel, with its back up against the Mediterranean Sea. Creating that buffer zone would take some 60 square kilometers (23 square miles) out of ...
After Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the Philadelphi Corridor was placed under the control of the Palestine Authority until 2007, when Hamas seized power in 2007, and Egypt and Israel closed borders with the Gaza Strip. [1] [2] In 2009, Egypt began the construction of an underground barrier to block existing tunnels and make new ones harder ...
Israel's military said it began construction of an underground defense system Sunday along its northern frontier with Lebanon to protect against cross-border tunnels. The infrastructure project ...