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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 05, 2017, 08:17:16 am
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Israel said weighing barrier to block IS tunnels from Sinai
IDF reportedly considers extending underground wall being built around Gaza Strip to avert jihadist threat from peninsula
By Times of Israel staff August 4, 2017, 8:33 am
srael is reportedly considering building an underground barrier along its Egyptian border to prevent the Islamic State terror group in Sinai from digging cross-border attack tunnels into Israel.
The army is weighing up whether to extend the barrier currently being constructed around the Gaza Strip southward to protect the Israeli towns in the Eshkol region, the Ynet news website reported on Friday.
Despite having focused the vast majority of its efforts on waging a bloody insurgency against the Egyptian army in recent years, IS in Sinai has long used saber-rattling and small scale attacks against Israel to boost its credentials. ...
Continued: http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-weighing-barrier-to-block-is-tunnels-from-sinai/
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OK, let's see someone (ne'rtrumpers get the first invite) jump in here to remind the Israelis that "walls don't work"...
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