Israel plans to establish a broad demilitarized zone around the Gaza Strip after completing an imminent ground offensive in the Palestinian territories and eliminating Hamas, according to reports.
The expected DMZ would extend the length of the 40-mile fence that already encircles the Gaza Strip, and would enhance the elaborate defense measures already in place, according to CNN’s Nic Robertson, who spoke to Israeli ministers about the plan.
“That border fence area, which has an electronic border fence that has sensors on it, that has cameras on it, a wall behind it that drops deep into the ground to protect against tunnels, and a small buffer zone behind it. That’s going to be much, much broader,” Robertson reported Thursday.
“One zone along 67 kilometers of the border fence. We were told a no-go zone.”
Israeli ministers reportedly said the DMV would be established after Hamas terrorists were eliminated from the Gaza Strip.
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The expanded DMZ will provide the Israel Defense Forces with a deeper and wider firing range across the border region, and play an important role in repelling any possible future incursions from Hamas terrorists.
The nearly 20-foot-tall border fence currently in place — known as the “Iron Wall” — already has more than 100 yards of no-person buffer zones, along with high-tech defense measures such as radar, motion-sensitive sensors, deep concrete foundations to block tunnels, and various heavily armed observation towers.
Construction of the “smart fence” began after 2016 and was completed in 2021, but Hamas terrorists were able to break through quickly in many locations using carefully coordinated tactics against understaffed defenses during the bloody October 7 sneak attack on Israel.
The expected DMZ would extend the length of the 40-mile fence that already surrounds the Gaza Strip, and would enhance the elaborate defense measures already in place.
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More than 200 hostages were taken in the attack, and around 1,400 were killed.
The DMZ will be established after Hamas armed forces are completely driven from the Gaza Strip – a massive operation which has reportedly been given the “green light” to start any day now.
“We will make every effort to bring our hostages, to bring our hostages [back] live,” Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat told ABC News.
The expanded DMZ will provide the Israel Defense Forces with a deeper and wider firing range across the border region, and play an important role in repelling any possible future incursions from Hamas terrorists.
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2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launched a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches its biggest attack on Israel in 50 years.
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, more than 4,200 wounded and at least 100 taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli cities.
Hamas terrorists are seen taking women hostage and parading them through the streets in a gruesome video.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised Hamas would pay an “unprecedented price.”
Gaza health officials reported at least 3,000 Palestinians killed and more than 12,500 injured.
Hamas claimed to have held hostages in tunnels under Gaza and Barkat said the underground network would be reduced to “the biggest graveyard in the world,” while pledging to destroy the terror group “even if it takes a year.”
The lives of civilians and hostages, Barkat explained, will take a backseat to the greater goal of victory.
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