{"id":53226,"date":"2025-03-03T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/israel-to-build-barrier-along-jordan-border-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:00:01","slug":"israel-to-build-barrier-along-jordan-border-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/israel-to-build-barrier-along-jordan-border-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to build barrier along Jordan border: defense minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katz outlined the plan during a tour of the Jordan Valley, stating in a video message that the 425-km barrier will stretch from the southern part of the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, through the occupied West Bank, to the Samar sands, north of Eilat, in the south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The project, expected to be completed within three years, aims &#8220;to prevent weapons smuggling and terrorism, and strengthen settlements,&#8221; Katz said. <\/p>\n<p>He also announced plans to establish new military outposts along the barrier&#8217;s route to &#8220;reinforce our hold on the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Katz, weapons smuggled from Jordan to the West Bank have been used in attacks against Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has long considered a new fence along the Jordanian border. In November 2024, the Defense Ministry began detailed engineering plans following a September attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing that killed three Israelis and a Jordanian assailant.<\/p>\n<p>In the West Bank, the Israeli forces continued operations, killing dozens and causing widespread destruction over the past weeks. Meanwhile, talks appear to have stalled on the second phase of a fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82954\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f200617ynff18-1320x880.jpg\" alt=\"The old border fence between Israel and Jordan, June 17, 2020. Photo by Jewish News Syndicate\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel will begin constructing a 1.445-billion-U.S. dollar barrier along the border with Jordan in the coming months, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000082953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000082953,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f200617ynff18-1320x880.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f200617ynff18-1320x880.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f200617ynff18-1320x880.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f200617ynff18-1320x880.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f200617ynff18-1320x880.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f200617ynff18-1320x880.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000082953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53226"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53226"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}