(AFP-Al-Arabiya) Egypt said Tuesday work will begin next week to double the width of a buffer zone being built along the border with Gaza to prevent militants infiltrating from the Palestinian enclave. A 500-meter-wide buffer zone is now being built along 10 km. of the border, and it will be expanded by another 500 meters, North Sinai provincial governor Abdel Fattah Harhur said.
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