Reports in Hebrew media revealed that Israel continues to dominate the border area between Gaza and Egypt, and that its army “will coordinate with the Egyptian side to build an above-and-underground barrier along the Philadelphia axis.”

Israeli Channel 12 said, “The Israeli army will also work to expand the ‘buffer zone’ it recently established in Philadelphia along the border between Gaza and Egypt in order to continue identifying the locations of tunnels that have not yet been discovered.”

The Hebrew channel confirmed that "the Israeli army is working with the Egyptians to build a new Rafah crossing, which will be located near the Israeli Kerem Shalom crossing."

The Hebrew channel's report explained, "In order to preserve its achievements in the Rafah operation, the Israeli army continues to work on creating a sterile zone that makes it possible to destroy the Hamas movement's tunnels along the Philadelphia axis on the Gaza side and in the city as well."

The channel explained, "The army is expanding the area even further, as the Israeli army is doing so along 14 kilometers of the axis to discover hotspots that Hamas may use and completely clear the area of potential threats, such as anti-tank missiles and mortar shells."

Hebrew media reveals the features of Israel's plans on Egypt's borders with Gaza (photo)

The Hebrew channel indicated that "the aim of establishing the sterile zone is to preserve the freedom of action of the Israeli army to operate comprehensively against the tunnels that cross into Egypt, and thus to thwart future smuggling operations into the Gaza Strip."

She added, "The other goal of this step is to allow the Israeli army to succeed in entering the region with relative freedom in the future, by maintaining its intelligence and operational control over it."

She continued, "The army wants to continue verifying whether there are more tunnels whose location has not been determined, after a large part of the tunnels that the army discovered on the Palestinian side and headed towards Sinai were closed on the Egyptian side and were not used."

The Hebrew Channel report claimed that “most of the ammunition transfers were over the ground through bribery and corruption at the Rafah crossing.”

An Israeli official told the American newspaper "The Washington Post" about two weeks ago that Israel "has so far found 20 tunnels crossing from Gaza to Egypt on the Philadelphia axis, and that the Israeli army has destroyed 14 of them, according to what the Washington Post indicates."

The Israeli source said, "There are about 20 tunnels that have not yet been discovered between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, and no smuggling has been carried out from Egypt to Gaza since last May, thanks to the Israeli army's operation in Rafah."

Channel 12 said that at the same time, and in coordination with the Egyptians, “the Israeli army began planning the Philadelphia Axis barrier, and the barrier will include an upper part, above ground, and also an underground wall to prevent digging tunnels in the future.”

In addition, “a new Rafah crossing is scheduled to be built, and it will be moved to the meeting point of the ‘three borders’, closest to Kerem Shalom, where there will be a common grip between Israel, Egypt, the Palestinians and the Americans, and it will be moved through it so that examination can be conducted in a modern way.” “It allows you to control what goes out and what goes in.”

In the same context, senior political officials in Tel Aviv said that “the Israeli army will remain deployed along the “Philadelphia axis” on the Gaza Strip border with Egypt to prevent the resumption of smuggling, according to the Israeli newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth.”

Meanwhile, an official Israeli source said that within a week or two, “the army will announce the end of the operation in Rafah.”