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Monday, December 12, 2011

''Israel’s growing wall of steel fences off Egypt''

read more ..........from alarabiya........

"Far from the uproar of Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Israel has been doubling its efforts to erect a giant, impenetrable security barrier along its 240-kilometer (150-mile) border with the Egyptian Sinai.

Work on the new border fence began a year ago, in a project initially aimed at stemming the growing tide of economic migrants and asylum seekers from Africa, as well as clamping down on drug trafficking.

But the pace of work has sped up since August, when gunmen from Sinai sneaked across the border and staged a series of deadly ambushes in Israel's southern Negev desert, putting security firmly at the top of the agenda."

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