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February 3, 2009

Ehud Barak Proposes Linking Gaza to West Bank with 30-Mile Tunnel
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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak proposed on Monday linking the Gaza
Strip with the occupied West Bank by digging a thirty-mile tunnel
through Israeli territory. In a campaign speech, Barak said he would
press for a two-state solution to Israel’s conflict with the
Palestinians if he is chosen as prime minister. When asked how Gaza, a
coastal enclave home to 1.5 million Palestinians, separated from the
West Bank by Israeli territory, could be made a part of a Palestinian
state, Barak replied that the regions could have an underground link. He
suggested one of the shortest routes would be some thirty miles long,
stretching from the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun to Dura, near the West Bank
city of Hebron.



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