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Monday 7 September 2015 - 11:41
Story Code : 179319

Israel building separation wall to keep refugees out

Amid what is being referred to as the worst refugee crisis since WWII, theIsraeli regimehas announced construction of aseparationwall to keep them out.

During a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuannounced that a 30-kilometerfence is being constructed along border with Jordan to stop "migrants," heassociatedwith terrorists, to enter Israel.

Israel finished the construction of a 230-kilometerwall along the Egyptian border in 2013; it also has set up fences along the border with Lebanon and along the line between Syria and Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Most of the West Bank has also been split by a barrier.



[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit (L) arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting in al-Quds (Jerusalem) on September 6, 2015 (Reuters)[/caption]

According to Bibi, thewall would connect with the Egyptian barrier and that construction has started along Israel's eastern border between the city of Eilat and near the site of a new airport in Timna Valley.
"We will continue the fence up to the Golan Heights," said the Israeli premier."We will not allow Israel to be submerged by a wave of illegal migrants and terrorist activists."
Golan Heights has been under the Israeli occupation since the 1960s. The Tel Aviv regime captured 1,200 square kilometers of the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War of 1967 and annexed the region in 1981.

Netanyahucited Israelis very small size and lack of geographic depth or demographic depth as the reasons behind themeasures.

His comments came amid a refugee crisis in Europe due to influx of asylum seekers from conflict-ridden countries in Africa and the Middle East.

The United Nations estimates that300,000 people have left the Middle East and North Africa for Europe this year, but 2,500 have died in their attempt, mainly throughdangerous voyages across the Mediterranean in rickety boats.Media reports, however,say350,000 have crossed into Europe this year.

Many of the worlds asylum seekers are ill-fated Syrians, fleeing the violence perpetrated by the Daesh Takfiri group.

According to documents from Israeli hospitals, the regimes army has paid millions of dollars for the costs of treatment to the foreign-sponsored militants, injured during battles with Syrian government forces since 2011.

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