Het route
The Het route or Khet route (Hebrew: ציר ה-ח', romanized: Tzir Ha-Het) is the name given by the Israeli security forces to a route used by terrorists and smugglers to penetrate into Israel along its southern border. The route goes from Gaza, into the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, then back into Israel.[1] The name given to this route stems from the Hebrew letter Het which resembles the shape of the route.[2]
The route starts from the Gaza Strip, goes through secret Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels below the Philadelphi Route into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, and then south through the Sinai peninsula to a poorly-secured area of the Israeli–Egyptian border.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ Border Guard pursues smugglers in desert Ynetnews, 23 May 2006
- ↑ Daniel Byman (2011) A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism p329
- ↑ Samuel M. Katz (2016) The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism p249
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