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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to surround the entire Jewish State to solve the terrorist infiltration problem once and for all. Mr. Netanyahu made the comments while touring the border with Jordan in southern Israel.
Mr. Netanyahu said: “In our neighbourhood, we need to protect ourselves from wild beasts. At the end of the day as I see it, there will be a fence like this one surrounding Israel in its entirety. We will surround the entire state of Israel with a fence, a barrier.”
He called the border project a part of a “multi-year plan to surround Israel with security fences to protect ourselves in the current and projected Middle East,” reported the Guardian. The prime minister made his comments as he visited a section of approximately 18 miles of fence being built from the Red Sea city of Eilat to near where Israel is constructing a new international airport. That alone is costing $77 million (£53m). In 2013, Israel also completed a five-meter-high fence along its border with Sinai.
Mr. Netanyahu also addressed the problem of tunnels from Gaza which Hamas has used to attack Israeli soldiers and civilians alike. “If you’re thinking of erecting a fence there you have to take into account that they could tunnel underneath it,” Mr. Netanyahu said. “The people who said that there is no significance to [retaining] territory in the modern age should go to Gaza.”
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