Peace and Justice Post

Would be 30 meters deep and 10 kilometers long

Cairo’s move to pressure Hamas threatening more humanitarian disasters in Israeli-besieged Gaza.

GAZA CITY – The construction of a new underground wall and recent border clashes have frayed relations between Hamas and Egypt and could threaten Gaza’s main lifeline in Gaza, analysts say.

Citing national security, Egypt is now building an underground iron wall in a new bid to tighten its porous Sinai border with the restive Palestinian territory.

Media reports said it would be 30 meters (100 feet) deep and 10 kilometers (six miles) long.

Since democratically elected Hamas seized total power in Gaza in 2007 it has relied on smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt to provide essential food and products for its Israeli-besieged people.

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