The Israeli army has intensified presence along Gaza’s border fence declaring the area a closed military zone.
Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir gave instructions to ban farmers and settlers from coming within the reach of the border area and the adjacent ranches.
Zamir also notified Israeli settlers of the ban and ordered that works for the construction of an apartheid wall around Gaza’s tunnels be momentarily halted.
He said the decision comes in response to warnings over projected attacks against Israeli soldiers following last week’s Israeli strike on a Palestinian resistance tunnel south of Gaza Strip.
