ISRAEL MULLS $900M FENCE ALONG EGYPT

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel has examined a plan to establish a $900 million
security system along the 200-kilometer border with Egypt.
The Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces have been reviewing
requirements for a security system that could halt infiltration of
insurgents and smugglers from the Sinai Peninsula into Israel. Officials
said they expected intensified Palestinian infiltration into Israel from the
Sinai.
"We're going to require a serious security system," Deputy Defense Minister
Zeev Boim said.
Officials said Israel 's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has provided
Palestinians with unregulated entry to Sinai. They said more than 15,000
Palestinians have entered the Sinai over the last five days and many of them
plan to infiltrate Israel.
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