Israel plans to demolish 3,000 Gaza homes for trench
The Israeli army wants to demolish 3,000 homes in Rafah to dig a trench preventing militants from using smuggling tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, an Israeli newspaper said yesterday.
The Israeli army on Sunday confirmed that a plan to dig a trench along the so-called "Philadephi road" had been revived and that construction could start within weeks.
"The army has submitted for the attorney general's approval a plan for digging a wide trench the length of the route that would extend to the southern part of Rafah," the Maariv daily reported.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "The plan for the widest trench means demolishing 3,000 Palestinian houses" in Rafah, an impoverished southern Gaza Strip city which has been one of the hardest-hit spots since the start of the intifada in September 2000.
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