Palestinian Interior and National Security Ministry in Gaza has begun on Wednesday morning building a new buffer zone along the southern border with Egypt.
The 100m-wide “safe area” stretching 12 km along the border between the Palestinian blockaded coastal enclave and Egypt is to be equipped with surveillance cameras and military posts the ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bezem told the PIC reporter.
“The measures come in the context of the outcomes and understandings reached during the recent visit of a security delegation to Egypt” Bezem added.
“We reassure the Egyptian side that Egypt’s national security is Palestinian national security. We can’t tolerate any threat to the stable security situation on the southern border” Bezem underlined.
The ministry’s undersecretary Tawfiq Abu Naim said “It will be a closed military area and therefore it will be easier to oversee the border and prevent smuggling of drugs and infiltrators”.
Last month a Hamas delegation visited Egypt for talks with Egyptian officials on increasing security measures on the border and opening the Rafah crossing.
