Israel advertised for bids to dig a moat along the Gaza-Egypt border. The Defense Ministry ran an ad in Thursday’s Ha’aretz calling on construction companies to submit tenders for a trench, two miles long and 80 feet deep, to run through the southern Gaza Strip.
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