{"id":127448,"date":"2019-02-04T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=127448"},"modified":"2019-02-04T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:14:00","slug":"israel-building-new-overground-fence-around-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/02\/israel-building-new-overground-fence-around-gaza-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Building New Overground Fence around Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israel\u2019s underwater barrier designed to further blockade the besieged Gaza Strip, seen during construction in 2018 at Zikim beach, approximately three kilometres from Gaza\u2019s northern frontier.<\/p><\/div>\n

3 Feb 2019 – <\/em>The Israeli Defence Ministry announced today it has begun building the overground part of barrier around the blockaded Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

The Defence Ministry, in a statement said,\u00a0the construction\u00a0started on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe barrier will be 65 kilometers long and will be six-meter-high, along the border from Kerem Shalom in the south and\u00a0will be connected to the new sea barrier Israel is building,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Israel had announced that the naval barrier designed to further blockade the besieged Gaza Strip<\/a> is nearing completion, seven months after construction began.<\/p>\n

According to the ministry, the overground\u00a0barrier is part of\u00a0Israel\u2019s underground smart fence\u00a0to detect tunnels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe border is uniquely and especially suited to threats from the Gaza Strip and will give a comprehensive solution to prevent entry into Israel,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

No Formal Borders<\/strong><\/p>\n

This new initiative will likely be seen as a further attempt by Israel to tighten its siege of the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing since 2007. Israel has closed all pedestrian and commercial<\/a> crossings into and out of the enclave and has constructed a \u201csecurity fence\u201d along the Green (1949 Armistice) Line which serves as a border. Alone of all UN member states, Israel has never formally declared where its borders actually are. A no-go area of approximately 300 metres is also imposed on the Gaza side of the fence, restricting the access of many families and farmers to their land.<\/p>\n

Israel has also imposed a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, which currently limits Gaza\u2019s fishermen to a distance of three nautical miles, some 17 less than was original proposed under the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s. Last Summer, two ships belonging to the Freedom Flotilla attempted to break the naval blockade, but were intercepted<\/a> by Israeli naval forces in international waters. Crew members of Al-Awda, the first ship to be intercepted, have accused<\/a> Israeli forces of violence and other governments have said that Israel\u2019s actions broke<\/a> international law.<\/p>\n

The impact of the siege has been severe. Gaza\u2019s industrial and commercial sectors have been damaged<\/a>, with Israel\u2019s ban<\/a> on imports of fuel and gas leading to shortages and high unemployment.<\/p>\n

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3 Feb 2019 – The Israeli Defence Ministry announced today it has begun building the overground part of barrier around the blockaded Gaza Strip. \u201cThe barrier will be 65 kilometers long and will be six-meter-high, and will be connected to the new sea barrier Israel is building,\u201d it added. The impact of the siege has been severe. Gaza\u2019s industrial and commercial sectors have been damaged, with Israel\u2019s ban on imports of fuel and gas leading to shortages and high unemployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":127449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}