Israel completes construction of a giant wall around Gaza within five months with a length of 60 kilometers

The Israeli occupation authorities announced that they will complete, within the next five months, the construction of a giant wall, which began construction two years ago in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip, at a cost of several billion US dollars, while Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Ashtiyeh, said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, The CEC chairman will be asked to go to Gaza, to consult on the chances of holding legislative elections, which, if any, will be the first since 2006.

In detail, the Israeli radio said yesterday: «The huge project consumes about three million and 100 thousand tons of soil, 2.3 million tons of concrete, and 140 thousand tons of iron, and to supply these huge quantities, erected in neighboring areas several concrete factories».

The radio added that 1,400 people work on the project around the clock, and for six days a week, mostly from migrant workers from Brazil, Spain, Italy, Germany and Moldova.

Eran Ofir, director of the Israeli Wall Project, explained that the work carries a number of risks. All workers are wearing protective helmets and helmets.

She added that «100 engineering mechanisms are being used in the implementation of the wall of the Gaza Strip, which will be completed in the next few months».

The occupation wall will extend for 60 kilometers, above and below the ground; 43 kilometers have been built so far, or 70% of the project.

"The project starts in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israeli, Egyptian and Gaza border triangle, and then extends north to the sea shore near Zikim in the northern Gaza Strip," she said.

"Those who approach the area can see the six-meter-high steel fence above the ground, where sensors, alarms and other advanced technologies have been set up to monitor the other side, which of course cannot be detected."

"The core of the project is what happens underground with a depth of tens of meters. It has sophisticated sensors and surveillance that cannot be detected.

In parallel to this wall, a maritime obstacle has been established along the shore of Zikim, in the northern Gaza Strip, 200 meters deep in the sea.

The Israeli radio has unveiled these data, after approval of the publication by the military censorship of the occupation.

Israeli officials point to the discovery of more than 17 attack tunnels that have crossed the borders of the occupation since the construction of the wall, amid the belief that Palestinians will not be able to dig tunnels into Israel after completion.

Many Israeli officials support the total disengagement from the Gaza Strip, unlike the West Bank, amid intensification of settlements and calls for the annexation of large parts of the West Bank.

In 2002, Israel erected a concrete wall deep in the West Bank, separating about 10% of agricultural land from Palestinian towns and villages.

On the other hand, Mohammed Ashtiyeh said yesterday that President Abbas will ask the head of the Central Election Commission to go to Gaza to consult on the chances of holding legislative elections, which will be - if it happens - the first since 2006, and pointed out that Abbas «will ask Hanna Nasser Go to the Gaza Strip, to begin the process of consultation on the process of legislative elections and accomplished ».

The prime minister said at the beginning of the Palestinian government meeting: «If the reconciliation agreements have not been implemented, we need great appeal to the Palestinian people, to restore the glow of democracy to the Palestinian institution, and to keep the Palestinian people always rule in any dispute». Speaking at a UN General Assembly meeting in New York a few days ago, Abbas announced that he would call elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip once he returns.

"We held elections in 1996, 2005, and 2006, but then stopped because of the 2007 Hamas coup," Abbas said in his speech to the United Nations. "From 2007 until now, we are calling for reconciliation and calling for elections."

"When I return home, I will call for general elections in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, and we will hold those who object to the elections accountable to God, the international community and history," he said.

Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian people in 2005, following the death of President Yasser Arafat.

Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip since its election victory in 2006.

Since then, several attempts to reconcile with the ruling Fatah movement in the West Bank have failed through the Palestinian Authority.

Fatah, for its part, considers Hamas's presidency of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and its membership illegal.

The Palestinian Basic Law stipulates that if the President of the Palestinian Authority is absent for any reason, it is the President of the Legislative Council who holds the presidency of the Palestinian Authority until the elections are held.