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Israel starts building border fence on frontier with Jordan
 Israel has begun building a fence along part of the country's eastern border with Jordan as Syrian civil war refugees and other migrants flee their countries.
What would Wallsend-on-Tyne be without the wall, not to mention Hadrian. The lad in the photo is pointing northward. As you can see, the southern zone has been incentivized.
| Ynet has more details here, including photos of the current fence, for those interested. |
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday: "We see today what happens when countries lose control of their borders." He seemed to be referring to the massive influx of refugees from the war-torn Middle East and African migrants heading to Europe.
Netanyahu earlier bemoaned the "human tragedy" of Syria's civil war and said Israel has aided its victims. However, he said Israel is too small to take them.
Israel already built fences along its border with Egypt to stop African migrants and in the Golan Heights bordering Syria.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog said Saturday that Israel should take in a limited number of Syrian refugees.
| I agree. House them in Syria, right there in the Syrian part of the Golan. To ensure proper security the IDF could advance its holdings a few kilometers towards Damascus. Put the refugees in the new space and have the UN Relief and Works Agency provide services... |
The budget for the new fence, which is to be finished within two years, is NIS 280 million ($71.4 million). Brigadier General Oren Ofir of the Israel Defense Forces -- who directed the building of the country's fence along its border with Egypt and in the Golan Heights -- will lead the project, the Hebrew-language news site Ynet reported.
A fence, replete with sophisticated sensors and regular IDF patrols, already exists on the northern half of the Israeli-Jordanian border, from the northern edge of the Dead Sea up to the three-way meeting point of Israel, Jordan and Syria near the Sea of Galilee.
Posted by: Steve White 2015-09-07 |
