Jerusalem News (18 August, 2014, 22 Av, 5774)
Contents:
1. Palestinians Seek to Leave Gaza
2. Assad Bombs Isis
3. Israel Developing Anti-Terror- Tunnel Technology
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1. Palestinians Seek to Leave Gaza
Egypt arrests 17 Palestinians fleeing Gaza war
Palestinians reportedly entered North Sinai through cross-border tunnels with plans to travel to Alexandria and then Europe
Ahram Online , Sunday 17 Aug 2014
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/108641/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-arrests--Palestinians-fleeing-Gaza-war.aspx
Egyptian authorities said on Sunday that 17 Palestinians have been arrested while trying to illegally enter the country in attempts to flee ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip, state-run news agency MENA reported.
The Palestinians were arrested after they illegally reached the North Sinai border town of Al-Arish via underground tunnels with Gaza. They were headed to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria from where they intended to illegally cross to Europe, MENA said.
The densely-populated Palestinian territory has been devastated by a more than month-long assault by Israeli forces that has killed almost 2,000 Palestinians.
The United Nations said 425,000 of the strip's 1.8 million people have been displaced by the war.
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2. Assad Bombs Isis
Al Arabiya News 17 Aug14: Syrian regime warplanes pounded an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) stronghold as well as other towns controlled by the militants Sunday[17 Aug.], conducting more than a dozen airstrikes and killing at least 31 militants, activists said.
For more than a year, President Bashar al-Assad's air force rarely targeted territory controlled by ISIS in northern Syria, instead focusing on mainstream rebel groups. But government jets have begun hitting the extremists more regularly since the militants overran much of neighboring northern and western Iraq in June.
[Isis headed towards Aleppo and has made gains in that direction at the expense of other Syrian rebels. Isis maybe advancing towards Aleppo while withdrawing somewhat from the Kurdish area.]
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3. Israel Developing Anti-Terror- Tunnel Technology
 Israel is developing a new system that will detect and destruct tunnels as they are dug by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, Britain's weekly The Sunday Times reported. The new system, which was developed by a consortium led by Elbit Systems, Israel's biggest developer of military technology, is expected to eliminate any future threat from the tunnels without recourse to such large-scale force. It is described as the an underground version of the Iron Dome air defense system which has destroyed around 90% of the rockets fired at Israel from Gaza. Rafael, the company behind the construction of the Iron Dome is also involved in the new project. ... The protection system will be based on a two-pronged approach, an officer from the Israeli Defence Force told the Tel-Aviv based daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot. First, sensors and transmitters will be used to monitor underground excavations and cavities before destroying them by a new generation of robots. In sensitive areas, a physical barrier will be inserted to a depth of 100ft, Atai Shelach, a former commander of a tunnel destruction unit said. The new high-tech shield, which is expected to cost around GBP430m, will be deployed along Israel's 42-mile border with Gaza. Despite the new technological breakthroughs, many military experts warn that the problem of 'terror tunnels' is likely to remain. 'It's a global strategic problem and threat',Shelach said. 'It isn't a wild guess to assume that [there are already] offensive tunnels in the north, and even in Syria,' he added.
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