Israel on Tuesday blazoned the completion of a hedge along the Gaza border, described as an “ iron wall” equipped with underground detectors, radars, and cameras to check pitfalls.
Israel has maintained a leaguer on Gaza since 2007, the time Hamas took power in the Palestinian enclave, tightly confining the inflow of goods and people in and out of the home to some two million people.
An Israeli defense ministry statement said the 65-kilometer “ hedge”, completed after three-and-a-half times of construction, includes an “ underground hedge with detectors”, a six-meter-high smart hedge, radars, cameras, and a maritime monitoring system.
The structure “ places an iron wall (.) between the (Hamas) terror organization and the residers” of southern Israel, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said.
During the most recent Hamas-Israel conflict in May, Palestinian fighters fired thousands of rockets towards Israel, which responded with hundreds of airstrikes.
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Over 240 people were killed in Gaza, while the death risk in Israel reached 12 in the 11 days of fighting.
But Israel has also advised its citizens face fresh pitfalls from Hamas forces who could seek to insinuate Israeli homes through coverts dug under Gaza.
Gantz pledged that the “ hedge will give Israeli citizens a sense of security”.
Israel says its Gaza leaguer is necessary to guard against pitfalls from Hamas, but critics condemn it for dire philanthropic conditions in the home.
Israel has also erected a security hedge along part of its land that connects to the West Bank, a Palestinian home it has enthralled since the 1967 Six-Day War.
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