The Israeli occupying forces have announced the start of construction of a new 4.6 km concrete wall in the east of the Gaza Strip to protect the settlements and the movement of settlers, near the separation fence with the strip. Salah Abdel Ati, Committee for the Protection of the Palestinian People, said in a statement that the wall legitimized the occupation. Israel’s residence in the east of the Gaza Strip is an insistence on tightening the siege rings, emphasizing that the occupation’s construction of separation walls has negative consequences and impacts on water and general ecological life in the Gaza Strip.
Notably, last year the occupying forces completed the construction of a concrete and steel wall that stretches from Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip to Rafah in the south, with an average height of 8 meters and a depth of 25 meters.