Israel/Palestine

Israel may well carve a 100-150 foot deep channel through this area and may even promote continued speculation about an alternative canal.

The real reason, imho, is more likely to cut off the tunnel network in northern Gaza from access to the tunnel system supply lines out of Egypt. Effectively creating an underground “wall”, a water wall supplied by the Mediterranean, naturally self-repairing and likely impenetrable at hamas tunnel depth. If successful, they could build another on the southern border. I think the learnings since 10/7 say that the underground barrier is more critical to Israel’s security (and less disruptive to peaceful Palestinian left) than walls above ground.

Hell…Israel could build it, cover it like Boston’s big dig and let the surface repopulate (albeit in residences with no basements).