In a move that would break the calm in the Gaza Strip the Israeli army is racing against time to build a concrete wall along the borders with the Gaza Strip.
The Yedioth Ahronot newspaper said that the Israeli army has begun to erect a wall along the borderline with Gaza with a total cost of more than three billion shekels that is several meters deep in the ground and six meters high in order to reduce the risk of Palestinian resistance’s tunnels.
The Haaretz newspaper for its part said last Thursday that the recent months have seen changes in the border area; where cement factories were established and workers were brought from outside the country. Meanwhile companies are working to level the border area in addition to building sand mounds to protect workers there.
The Palestinian resistance factions warned the Israeli occupation of the consequences of the policy of imposing a de facto situation on the ground at the borders with the Gaza Strip expressing their refusal of building a concrete wall along the borders.
Concerns and assurance attempts
Expert and military analyst Wasef Erekat said the Israeli army’s construction of a concrete wall is an attempt to reassure the Israelis whether inside the 1948 occupied territories or near Gaza highlighting the Israeli fears arising from the issue of the tunnels and the inability to detect them.
Erekat told the PIC reporter that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going through a major crisis inside his coalition other than his possible prosecution at the Israeli courts on corruption charges. Thus he is trying to heighten tensions to evade the corruption charges and to abort attempts to overthrow him.
The military analyst said that any future confrontation depends on the position of the Palestinian resistance regarding such developments and its in-depth study of the planned wall stressing the need to have a unified Palestinian position to determine ways to confront it.
Fake deterrence
Writer and political analyst Hani Habib noted that the voices in the Israeli political and security circles which recently called for the need to increase the deterrence force is being translated by the establishment of obstacles above and under the ground at the borders with the Gaza Strip.
He pointed out to the PIC that Israel despite its technological progress and being a nuclear state and one of the most advanced countries in manufacturing weapons it is unable and incapable of confronting primitive means of warfare noting that tunnels are an illustration of the Palestinian resistance creativity.
Commenting on Israeli media reports that “this wall is bringing us closer to a new war” he stressed that Israeli officials rule out war in an attempt to confuse the Palestinian resistance. He called on the resistance and the Palestinian public to be prepared for any future confrontation.
He added that the modern and advanced weapons of the Israeli regime have lost their prowess due to the creativity of the Palestinian fighter which is limited by the lack of support and the fact that modern weapons no longer play an important role except for destruction which doesn’t necessarily bring about victory in war.
Amos Harel an Israeli military expert in the Haaretz newspaper predicted a new war with the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip noting that the plan to build a wall under the ground may spark the confrontation at a time Israel is conducting intensive drills to fight in the tunnels and streets.
Options are still open for Palestinian resistance over the possibility of addressing the new barrier (the concrete wall) as well as it did with the Iron Dome system which proved its failure during the latest aggression on the Gaza Strip.
From the Iron Dome to the new concrete wall Israel remains hostage to the Palestinian resistance’s creativity and intelligence which proved that traditional means of resistance could beat modern technologies.
