By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
For Egypt, Hamas is a significant threat. Not surprisingly, the Egyptians are trying to block all smuggling tunnels into and out of Gaza.
Over the past year hundreds of Egyptian soldiers, police and civilians have been killed by terrorists who have received material aid from Gaza. Hundreds.
Egypt has shut the border between their country and Gaza. They also, recently, doubled the width of the buffer zone of that border extending it to 1 kilometer which is .62 miles. In doing so they uprooted trees and destroyed homes.
Anything that was within the swath of land that was destined to be the buffer zone was razed in order to create a safer and more defensible border.
Now the Egyptians are digging a security ditch 23 yards deep and 11 yards wide.
These efforts are designed to make it much more difficult to tunnel into Gaza. Tunnel builders must now dig deeper and dig longer. Now digging tunnels is more expensive, more dangerous, and much more time consuming.
Most important of all is that, now, it is much easier for Egypt to detect the digging.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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