MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Andrei...
about illegal migrants from Africa.Most of the 250-km (155-mile) border between Egypt and Israel runs through the Sinai Desert, and is a route favored by those who seek to cross illegally into Israel. Hundreds of illegal migrants from Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States, many with criminal records, cross that part of the border every year.
Hamas" suicide bombers also use the porous Egyptian-Israeli border to get into Gaza via Eilat. In January 2007, a suicide bomber used that route to get into Eilat, where he detonated his bomb in a bakery, killing the three men employed there.
Israel"s fears are well grounded, but will the new wall be effective in a desert where the Egyptian and Israeli nomad tribes, the Bedouins, move around freely, and often serve as guides for illegal migrants?
Egypt has also recently started building an underground metal barrier to stop Palestinian smugglers from moving through tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. The
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