Watan-Media outlets have revealed Israeli proposals, plans, and calls to tighten the noose on the residents of the Gaza Strip through a border wall with Egypt, specifically in the Rafah region.
Israeli newspapers have reported a request from the Israeli Minister of Security, Yuval Galant, to his American counterpart Lloyd Austin, regarding the separation of the Egyptian border from Gaza with American funding.
Yedioth Ahronoth says that there is a plan being formulated by Israeli security agencies to build that wall in order to “cut off the oxygen supply to Hamas.
Israeli Plan in the Rafah Region
The Israeli plan involves equipping the ground barrier with advanced technology, cameras, sensors, and other tools with financial support from Washington. The purpose is to provide shared information for both the Egyptian and Israeli sides regarding events in the Gaza Strip.
The proposed length of the wall is 13 kilometers. According to the Israeli news site “zman,” the Israeli army focused on building the “Shigoom Wall” – an underground iron wall intended to block deep tunnels in the ground. The site claims that the number of tunnels did not decrease in reality; instead, diggers went deeper and surpassed the wall.
The source pointed out that in previous years, the Egyptians built an underground iron wall on their own land. When that did not help, they took a more drastic step by destroying the Egyptian city of Rafah and moving it two kilometers backward.
International American Funding for Wall Construction
According to Zman, the most logical solution is to build an underground wall on the Egyptian side, and the idea being developed involves securing international funding for the wall’s construction. This is the only way it can be continuously maintained without direct friction with Palestinians in the sector.
In this way, Israel will not be accused of controlling parts of the sector after withdrawing from it in 2005. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army is not conducting any operations in Rafah, except for immediate attacks.
Egyptian sources have denied what they described as “allegations” talking about weapons smuggling from Egypt to Hamas, stating that it is not true.
Media reports quoted security sources in Egypt as saying that since 2013, they have closed all tunnels in Sinai.
The sources claimed that Egypt would reject any Israeli plans to implement this wall or redeploy militarily on the Gaza border.
The allegations suggest that the Egyptian regime has a vision calling for the necessity to stop the fighting and prevent Israeli occupation from controlling Palestinian territories or reducing their size.