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===Egypt=== ====Egypt-Gaza barrier==== {{Main|Egypt–Gaza barrier}} [[File:Road to Gaza 060 - Flickr - Al Jazeera English.jpg|thumb|Rafah Border Crossing]] The [[Egypt–Gaza barrier]] is often referred as "separation barrier" in the media<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/egypt-gaza-hamas-border.html |title=Egypt-Gaza Border Quiet Despite Political Rhetoric - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East |publisher=Al-Monitor |access-date=2013-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211222434/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/10/egypt-gaza-hamas-border.html |archive-date=2013-12-11 |url-status=dead |date=2013-10-09 }}</ref> or as a "separating wall".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-21-la-fg-egypt-wall21-2009dec21-story.html |title=Egypt's barrier along Gaza border called 'wall of shame' |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2009-12-21 |access-date=2013-11-22 |first1=Jeffrey |last1=Fleishman |first2=Amro |last2=Hassan}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012500938.html |title=Dear Palestinian Brothers . . . Please Return to Gaza |work=The Washington Post |access-date=2013-11-22 |first1=Nora |last1=Younis |first2=Ellen |last2=Knickmeyer |date=2008-01-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/world/middleeast/26gaza.html?_r=0|title=Egypt Tries to Plug Border; Gazans Poke New Hole|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2013-11-22|first=Steven|last=Erlanger|date=2008-01-26}}</ref> In December 2009, Egypt started the construction of the Egypt–Gaza barrier along the [[Gaza–Egypt border|border with Gaza]], consisting of a steel wall. Egypt's foreign minister said that the wall, being built along the country's border with the [[Gaza Strip]] will defend it "against threats to national security".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2009/12/20091222134531894506.html |title=Egypt defends Gaza wall - Middle East |publisher=Al Jazeera English |access-date=2013-11-22}}</ref> Though the construction paused a number of times, the wall is nearly complete. ====Sharm el-Sheikh barrier==== According to Julia Sonnevend, the anti-terrorist barrier around the Sharm el-Sheikh resort in Egypt is in fact a separation barrier.<ref name=sonnevend>Julia Sonnevend. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kQgBDQAAQBAJ Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event]. Oxford University Press. 2016.</ref>
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