Palestinian militants often use tunnels to smuggle rockets into the Gaza Strip
The Jewish state has made further fortifications designed to secure her borders. These would detect tunnels being dug from the Gaza Strip which militants have used to attack security forces.
Included in this scheme would be a deep underground barrier as well as sensors that can detect digging well before a tunnel reaches the border.
The Israeli air force, a short while ago, destroyed a tunnel it claimed was designed to attack one of the border crossing points. Hamas said it was a smuggling tunnel. Hundreds of tunnels have been dug by Hamas and its rival Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Most of them went beneath Gaza’s border with Egypt. They were used to smuggle arms, goods and people. They have been destroyed by the Egyptian army over the last three years in an operation that included digging a moat and flooding it with seawater.
The over 40 miles of fortifications around Gaza will be completed in mid-2019, at a cost of £630 million.
The network of sensors has been placed close to an existing three-metre high barbed-wire fence. Behind the sensors are further layers of defences including a seven-metre reinforced steel fence and an underground barrier made of concrete and metal netting that is said to be “tens of metres” deep.
Also and in addition to the fortifications, Israel has a line of observation towers and surveillance systems along the border, as well as observation balloons, drones and manned aircraft.
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