[Ynet] Egypt said Tuesday work will begin next week to double the width of a buffer zone being built along the border with the Gazoo Strip to prevent gunnies infiltrating from the Paleostinian enclave.
A 500-metre (546-yard) wide buffer zone is now being built along some 10 kilometres (six miles) of the border, with some 800 homes being demolished in the process.
Work will begin next week to expand it by another 500 metres, North Sinai provincial Governor Abdel Fattah Harhur said.
| At least as many complaining families will be moved out, and their property destroyed. An unfortunate side effect of profitting from a decade or more of Gazan smuggling. |
| We've said this at the Burg before, but an effective buffer would be a canal, very deep and very wide, running along the border between Egypt and Gazoo. Fill it with alligators if you must... |
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