Yahya Sinwar the new leader of the Hamas Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip inspects a section of the border with Egypt, in the southern Gaza strip town of Rafah, on July 6, 2017. The buffer zone is expected to extend for a length of 12 kilometres and at a width of 100 metres along the border, with a road and security cameras running parallel, according to a statement by a security official. Photo by Ashraf Amra