Egypt, curse be upon its leaders, has now made Israel very happy.
To help Israel starve Palestinians in Gaza, Egypt is asking Americans to build a wall on border.
Muslims are already suffering at the hands of evil kafir zionists, but now even Arabs are siding with these zionists to finish off their own muslim brothers and sisters.
BBC:
Page last updated at 21:46 GMT, Wednesday, 9 December 2009[b]Egypt starts building steel wall on Gaza Strip border[/b]
By Christian Fraser - BBC News, Cairo
Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned.
When it is finished the wall will be 10-11km (6-7 miles) long and will extend 18 metres below the surface.
The Egyptians are being helped by American army engineers, who the BBC understands have designed the wall.
The plan has been shrouded in secrecy, with no comment or confirmation from the Egyptian government.
The wall will take 18 months to complete.
For weeks local farmers have noticed more activity at the border where trees were being cut down, but very few of them were aware that a barrier was being built.
'Impenetrable'
That is because the barrier, made of super-strength steel, has been hidden deep underground.
The BBC has been told that it was manufactured in the US, that it fits together in similar fashion to a jigsaw, and that it has been tested to ensure it is bomb proof.
It cannot be cut or melted - in short it is impenetrable.
Intelligence sources in Egypt say the barrier is being sunk close to the perimeter wall that already exists.
They claim 4km of the wall has already been completed north of the Rafah crossing, with work now beginning to the south.
The land beneath Egypt and Gaza resembles a Swiss cheese, full of holes and tunnels through which the Palestinians smuggle the everyday items they are denied by the blockade.
But the Israelis say the tunnels are also used to smuggle people, weapons, and the components of the rockets that are fired at southern Israeli towns.
The wall is not expected to stop all the smuggling, but it will force the Palestinians to go deeper and it will likely cut the hundreds of superficial tunnels closer to the surface that are used to move the bulk of the goods.
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Egypt is building a huge metal barrier to try to prevent cross-border smuggling. This is a selection of emails, and reaction given over the telephone, from people in Gaza, Egypt and Israel on the issue.
Reaction from Israel:
Helena Tenne, Kibbutz Maanit Israel
Egypt is constructing a huge steel wall, which has been imported from the US, and it is impenetrable, just to stop Gazans smuggling "everyday items" into Gaza. If that is the reason, doesn't it sound just a bit over the top?Ben, Tel Aviv, Israel:
I truly support the establishment of that wall, it is not a secret that militants in Gaza are attempting all the time to smuggle bombs, missiles, grenades, machine guns and more, in order to hit the Israeli army and Israeli civilians. I believe that if this wall is constructed there will be much less weapon smuggling into Gaza, and that will maybe achieve longer period of the cease-fire between us.Stuart Hersh, Kiryat Arba, Israel:
The Egyptians can build a security wall; In Ireland they can build a security wall. In other countries they can build a security wall; all with international approval. Only when Israel builds such a passive device does the international community treat it as a crime.Reaction from Gaza:
Abed Elrahman al-Assouli, Khan Younis, Gaza:
Abed was contacted by telephone: When we get a political solution, there will be no need for tunnels. I don't think this new wall will affect the smuggling, we are talking about thousands of tunnels. It would be a disaster if it did. It's illegal, but it's the only way people in Gaza receive the goods they need for their daily lives. With Israel's siege of Gaza and closure of the border, there is no way to feed Gaza people except through these tunnels. They do not satisfy all our needs, but it gives us the minimum.Daraa Mohammed, Gaza:
Daraa was contacted by telephone: We heard about this a few days ago, we don't know how serious it is. Israel is mainly responsible for the siege imposed on us nearly four years ago, but Egypt - supposedly our brothers - plays a strong and active role in this strangling siege too. Many people have died in the tunnels when they have collapsed or the electricity blows up, trying to provide goods for others. Israel lets in so few items; we don't have food, drink, milk for babies, medicine, fuel, construction materials. We have been forced to build tunnels. We consider them illegal but they allowed us to resume our lives. Finally, whatever Egypt does, the Palestinian people will overcome it. We will just dig deeper tunnels.Montaser H Bahja, Jabalya City, Gaza
By email :
Palestinians, especially Gazans, have been suffering a lot because of the blockade. It must end. Many parties share in the crime of the siege: Egypt, America and some Palestinians. Personally I hate the way we get our goods through underground tunnels - by doing this we lost the attention of the world. Without them the world would have had to respond to our plight, now they do not. Therefore, this steel wall should have been built long ago, to convince the world to help us. Egypt should help us by opening the border directly and they should help us get rid of this stupid blockade, we cannot forget that Egyptians are our brothers, so they should be the first to help us and not add to our suffering.Reaction from Egypt:
Mohamed al-Shazly, Cairo:
The Palestinians are being treated like animals, by all the countries involved in this tragedy of a political paradox. Israel is building a wall, and now Egypt, adding to the blockade. To me this looks like a formula of segregation which pushes the Palestinians to support the likes of Hamas and "intifada". In fact the actions of Israel, Egypt and the US encourage the instability of the fragile ground on which peace illusions are built. Nonetheless, the wall will ease one of the headaches caused to Egypt by Israel.Ahmed, Cairo:
Egypt is doing this in response to pressure from the US and Israel to protect Israel from the alleged danger of these tunnels. However, these tunnels are used to smuggle life necessities such as food and medicines. Whatever weapons are smuggled through these tunnel never matches up to the Israeli war machine. Gazans live under very difficult conditions. I hope that the matter is looked upon in more scope than just Israel's security concerns.Chris Smillie, Cairo
They should build shops on the Egyptian side of the border. That would relieve the need to smuggle in non-deadly goods, plus bring in money to the local Egyptians. Creating one big prison isn't going to persuade Gazan voters to elect a moderate government. Quite the opposite.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8405020.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/8405798.stm
As long as its not under the border, I doubt it makes much of a difference. EDIT - the article says that it goes 18 metres deep, so it will be troublesome.
Also of big concern is the house repossessions that have recently taken place in east jerusalem.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
as expected a dumb and blind would give a pathetic response, what has the people of egypt doing wrong gotta do with islam or sunnis muslims, it is the country that are doing bad which is going against the islamic teaching, you shias your own scholars, big major scholars are allowing it.
you falsely accused Iranians to be anti-Palestinian.
for your information, Egypt is not Iran.
can yo not think straight with your own head?
Ayatollah rightly named America as "Great Satan".
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