Members of Palestinian security forces stand by as bulldozers clear an area for a large buffer zone on the border with Egypt in the southern Gaza strip City of Rafah, on June 28, 2017. Islamic Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, began to build up a no-go security zone on the borders between the coastal enclave and Egypt, a senior Hamas security official said Wednesday. The buffer zone will be 12 kilometer long and 100 meter wide on the borders into Gaza territories, according to a statement by a security official. (Xinhua/Khaled Omar)
