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The National Planning and Building Commission yesterday approved the construction of a NIS 250 million detention center in the Negev for illegal migrants. The center will open by June. The cabinet approved the facility in November 2010.
The Ministry of Defense says, "Emphasis will be placed on the maintenance of community life… Separate areas and sections will allow the detainees to be housed with their respective communities, organized by place of origin. Religious and community centers will also be built to enable the maintenance of community life."
The ministry says that the center will have classrooms for studying and computer work, kindergartens, medical centers, family health centers, hairdressing salons, and sports facilities. Most of the center's structures will be mobile or collapsible, so that can later be used in other national projects.
The center will be built in stages, with the first stage sufficient for 3,000 detainees. The center will have a capacity to hold 11,000 detainees at its peak.
The Ministry of Defense has already published a NIS 80 million tender for earthworks for the center, and more tenders for the center's construction will be published soon.
Israel is also building a fence along the 240-kilometer border with Egypt in an effort to prevent the infiltration of migrants from Sinai.
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