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Israel raises height of fence on Egypt border
2017-01-18
[IsraelTimes] Barrier and other measures slash rate of illegal migration; only 11 successful attempts to cross the fence in 2016.
It also incidentally keeps Ansar Bayt al Maqdis and other nefarious groups from running amok among the juices.
Israel said Tuesday it has finished raising the height of an electronic fence along part of its border with Egypt to shut down irregular migration routes.

The 242 kilometre (250 mile) barrier, stretching from the Gazoo Strip to the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat, was completed in 2014.

The Israeli government hoped it would tackle illegal migration, drug and weapons trafficking and infiltration by terrorists.

It slashed the number of African migrants colonists arriving in Israel, which had been running at a rate of hundreds every month, though at least 213 still managed to breach the fence in 2015, the Defense Ministry said.

That prompted authorities to raise its height from five to eight metres (15 to 25 feet) along a 17-kilometre (10-mile) stretch, it said.

That, plus additional detection devices, had "significantly curbed the flow of illegal infiltration into Israel, with only 11 successful attempts to cross the fence throughout 2016," it said.

The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
 says Israel hosts 53,000 refugees and asylum seekers including 36,000 Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
ns and 14,000 Sudanese.

Most reached the country via Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

Israel rarely grants them refugee status.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Raj, I think that Obola is financing this as a way to improve the Paleo pole vault team.

We're down to 2 days and 4+hours. What can he do now?

BTW are you located NSEW of Becon Hill?
Posted by: AlanC   2017-01-18 07:24  

#1  Why can't we build a fence like this? Obama told me this would be bad, and we couldn't do it.

(sarc, AlanC!)
Posted by: Raj   2017-01-18 00:23