Egypt Daily News – Local sources in Gaza said that Israel has been observed installing lighting poles equipped with automatic sprinklers along the Philadelphi corridor (Salah al-Din) border with Egypt in the southern sector.
Palestinian media outlets have recently reported that Israeli authorities continue to carry out more new constructions along the Philadelphi corridor, where lighting poles and additional watchtowers and cranes have been installed.
Israel, after completing the construction of a paved road from the Kerem Shalom crossing in the east to the beach in the west, and erecting earthen barriers, installed hundreds of lighting poles and equipped them with large lamps to illuminate the new road, in a move similar to what happened previously along the “Netzarim” corridor in the center of the Gaza Strip.
Tribal sources in the Egyptian city of Rafah confirmed that Israeli army has erected massive lighting poles and cranes equipped with surveillance cameras, and have established some military towers in several areas of the Philadelphi corridor.
The sources added that the Egyptian army also repaired damages to the border area caused by the Israeli forces blowing up abandoned tunnels near the border with Egypt.
The new constructions in the “Philadelphi” corridor increase the concerns and fears of the residents of Gaza, who see them as evidence that Israel does not intend to withdraw from this route but rather plans to maintain a permanent presence there.
