Egypt may build a Gaza wall to block Hamas terror attacks

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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, speaks in front of the state-run TV ahead of a military funeral for troops killed in an assault in the Sinai Peninsula, as he stands with army commanders in Cairo. (AP Photo/MENA, Mohammed Samaha) (The Associated Press)

In the wake of Friday’s attack in northern Sinai, which killed 33 Egyptian soldiers, Cairo  once again, has raised the idea of a building an eight-mile barrier along its border with Gaza to deter Islamist terrorists from moving in and out of the Palestinian territory.

“There is a big conspiracy against us,” Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said in a live, televised address Saturday, in which he blamed “foreign powers” for the atrocity and said Egypt is locked in an “existential war”.

Egypt, which has declared a three-month state of emergency in northern Sinai, also cancelled its planned role as mediator between Israel and Hamas in talks aimed at maintaining a ceasefire that has held since the end of the summer conflict.

Friday’s sophisticated terrorist attack – which Egyptian authorities have indicated likely came from Gaza – was launched on Egyptian troops with devastating effect. Old tunnels that had yet to be destroyed by Egyptian forces or newly-dug tunnels that had not been detected were likely used in the attack that combined the use of a suicide bomber on one hand, with rocket propelled grenades and roadside bombs on the other.

Local Egyptian media has reported that Sisi has sent reinforcements to bolster 12 existing battalions as well as sending Egypt’s elite 777th and 999th units to strategic locations in northern Sinai and that helicopter gunships killed six terrorist on Sunday. Egypt is facing a serious threat in Sinai from, among others, the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis Islamist terror group, which appears to be using Gaza as a safe haven. The terrorists are believed to be crossing via terror tunnels, even though Egypt has reportedly destroyed more than 1,800 underground passages in a bid to clamp down on Hamas and other terror groups operating there.

Hamas, which has launched thousands of rockets into Israel from Gaza’s northern border in the last year, has also sought to strike a blow at al-Sisi’s forces as payback for the former Egyptian military leader’s overthrowing of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas’ parent organization.

Following Friday’s attack, the Rafah crossing between southern Gaza and Egypt was closed immediately and will reportedly remain closed indefinitely. Hamas leaders have reportedly stated that Gaza will “explode” if the Rafah crossing is not re-opened quickly.

While the southern crossing into Egypt is closed, other border crossings with Israel remain open. Humanitarian and trade supplies are being delivered by Israel to the more than 1.8 million residents of Gaza whose Hamas government fought a 50-day war against them this summer. The war cost the lives of a reported 2,000 Gazans, according to Hamas government figures, and 70 Israelis. Recent independent analysis of the Gazan dead suggests that as many as half were terrorist combatants.

Israeli tanks sit at the wall separating Gaza and Israel
Israeli tanks sit at the wall separating Gaza and Israel

The success of Israel’s controversial West Bank separation barrier in lowering suicide attacks on the Jewish state by as much as 90 percent, appears to have not gone unnoticed by Egypt which is now facing a comparable problem from Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists. Egypt appears to be weighing a similar solution, although some regional experts believe there may be other alternatives.

“I’m not sure they are going to build a wall,” Zvi Mazel, Israeli Ambassador to Egypt from 1996-2001, told FoxNews.com. “I understand [Egypt] would like to create a buffer zone where there are no houses and no vegetation.”

Mazel noted that to do so, Egypt would have to expel 100,000 Bedouins from northern Sinai to establish such a zone.

Mazel believes the “foreign powers” Al Sisi referred to as fomenting attacks launched from Gaza and funding terror operations in Sinai are Qatar, Turkey and Iran.

“He knows better than anyone else who is responsible for encouraging these terrorists,” Mazel said. “The terrorists in Sinai constitute the threat, but someone is giving them money, and the money has most likely come from those countries.”

 

Fox News

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41 responses to “Egypt may build a Gaza wall to block Hamas terror attacks”

  1. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    LOLOLOLOL
    It’s about time they change the name of Gaza to Perfectly Safe Zoo

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      I’m sure someone is making ‘Designer Walls’ somewhere … the Israeli ones are as ugly as the concrete settlements … maybe the ‘plastics recyclers’ would have an idea … hmmm
      The Bedouins would enjoy Camel and Oasis motifs, I think.

      1. MekensehParty Avatar
        MekensehParty

        Yeah Hind is working on one.
        Knowing her she built it around herself and thank god she forgot her computer on the other side.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          hehehehehe …nasty … tsk … 😉

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar

            I was thinking of Doron … there really are some walls that would be hard to mount. Here’s one ….
            Rich & Jewish, I’m sure …. 😉 But perhaps, doron, you’d rather some more ‘Brazil Beach’ pics…..
            http://www.likesharetweet.com/shock/top-7-richest-women-in-the-world/4/

          2. morning , that is the ugliest woman alive ..500 millions are simply not enough to kiss that face 🙂
            i’d go with mountain tops ..green and white from snow on the top, that way i can wake up everyday safe AND enjoy the view

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          humm.. yiess am very selective nobody can do a thing about that..excuse-moi..so i don’t waste a post, this is for learned people not you..
          http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ali/iraq-2004-04-09.htm#top

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar

            You ARE indeed, Dear. Isn’t this close to what the Pope was talking about? 😉
            It’s everywhere ….

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            what on earth (what) has to do with the Pope?

          3. Well said.

        3. Heartless moron!

      2. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        The Iron Wall
        http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/ironwall.htm#top Jabotinsky

        (We can see very well what would come next..Irak, Lybia, Syria:))
        (..) if we make peace with our neighbours they will insist on Palestine and Palestinian rights (..).
        That’s why the “Oded Niyon” plan published by World Zionist movement deals with the neighbours once and for all, naive dear civilians..it’s live, it’s all around you..

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          ( I wonder if this is a good spot to stick this in ….)
          (I’m trying to remember the name and author of an old ‘Sci-Fi’ book I read, where a group in a spaceship finally finds and comes back to a little blue planet once known as Earth – now grey and appearing lifeless, because it is totally covered in a steel-looking ‘protective’ roof.)

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            THIS is what we are living, the article below is Iraq 2004, which is mentioned in the Iron Wall, it predict more terrorism and what’s happening now, not science fiction, it’s a chain reaction to Jabotinsky’s The Iron Wall. IF you have read it..i don’t think so.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            this is a blablablog nothing more..no intellectualism some jokes here and there, comfort and common perception, no problems, as boring as uncle Theodosius and aunt Penelope on family gatherings. I’m out of here. (I like making people happy).

    2. not yet..they need to start another war, empty their storage completely and then

    3. It will seem so. Palestine will be victorious in the end, but they should never forget what horrible world they existed in.

      1. MekensehParty Avatar
        MekensehParty

        Victories everywhere. Divine victories. Yet the people are still living in misery.
        Their crime is not that they’re Palestinians, their crime is having people like you supporting them, promising them fake victories and giving them false hopes.
        You are the reason Palestinians are miserable Tee! Yes you!

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Not only Tee Show crime..President El Sisi crime.

          -“Egypt won’t abandon Palestinian cause, and is still holding the position on forming a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as it’s capital”.

          -“The lost lives of our brothers and children in Gaza
          aka MekyahoudiParty Zoo, will act as an incentive to find a comprehensible solution for the Palestinian cause.”

  2. The real lebanese Avatar
    The real lebanese

    Called it.

  3. Fauzia45 Avatar

    Soon all will be building walls!!!!!

    1. it works..it seems ME is not about armies any more but a bunch of guys in pickup truck, highly mobile that implement s series of hit and run tactics, the best way to stop them is a wall.
      china built the great wall and it worked, no reason ME will not adopt this

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Did you look at what China ended up with ?????

        1. huge territory and the worst air pollution ever.
          we take measures to ensure Israel becomes a greener state so we’re covered 😉

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar

            And the only open gate is to Kimmy Il Dong in N.K. 😉

          2. there was no north Korea at the time 🙂
            china is not a topic i know much about these days, i only know they throw their weight around

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Israel is the greatest tree destroyers on the planet after the Amazone bandits..the biggest and ugliest concrete builders making once beautiful Holly-land into
            HollyUnwooded land.
            For God (real estate agent) money has no odour..

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    At Egyptian Gaza reconstruction conference, President Sisi had opted not to send an invitation to Israel, because Israel’s presence could have prompted other states to stay away..while Lieberman said they can’t reconstruct without Israel permission -,- o_o

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      yah … weird … the ‘Catch 22’ of all the ‘dialogues’. :-))

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        All Sisi talks Gaza, Syria in meeting with Egyptian newspaper chiefs. http://linkis.com/english.ahram.org.eg/pu4RQ

  5. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    FOX News..? Blease YaLibnan yakh..how…how.. much $$$?
    Ah comment ais- je pu descendre si bas.

    1. TheUSequalsTheIS Avatar
      TheUSequalsTheIS

      bbc

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Ohhh .. ouchie … twisted an ankle … somebody left a pile of broken concrete lying about … SUE !!! :-)))))))))

  6. TheUSequalsTheIS Avatar
    TheUSequalsTheIS

    this is what is wrong wid bashar and hezzy they dont go against the palestinians. Where is the IS(rael) = the US to protect their fellow muslims in gaza?

  7. LOL..there goes the racict card down the toilet :))))
    oh i can’t stop laughing now…

  8. “While the southern crossing into Egypt is closed, other border crossings with Israel remain open. Humanitarian and trade supplies are being delivered by Israel to the more than 1.8 million residents of Gaza whose Hamas government fought a 50-day war against them this summer. ”

    Hamas better remember not to bite the hand that feeds them (but they will forget.. )

    1. You mean like zoo animals feel about their minders!

      1. why you complain to me- go complain the the Egyptian brothers

      2. we’ll go by your example..
        it’s like having a pack of Haynes in your back yard- they are preserved animals so you got to take care of them..how ever there is not a letter in the book that i need to make holes in the fence so the pack would feel more comfortable

  9. President Abdel Fatah al-Nono is as dumb as he looks. We should ask him for how many sjekels he is selling the Egyptian people’s dignity to Israel.

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