Thermal Cameras To Secure Southern Tunisian-Algerian Border

Informed sources told Echorouk that surveillance cameras were installed along the Algerian-Tunisian border since last mid-week, as it began as a first step to put them on the border level between El Oued and Kabli, Titaouine and Tozer in the Tunisian side of the border, and that in parallel with the near completion of the land berm.

According to Echorouk sources, the border between Tunisia and Algeria, and exactly in El Oued area, was provided with high-resolution surveillance cameras that are very sophisticated and that are working on a long distance and that move smoothly to provide imaging thermal cameras that work with UV to enable it to monitor the movements at night time, and the material that is made from them is not affected by factors of nature that are known by the region, especially in the summer, where temperatures reach record levels that can reach up to 70 degrees, as they heavily rely on the equipment in the surveillance of the common border between Algeria and Tunisia, which length exceeds 1.000 kilometres.

This move comes to support the Army’s efforts to control the borders, especially with the conditions in the neighbouring countries, as the armed forces often succeeded in responding to the attempts to introduce the Libyan weapons across the border at the level of El Oued province, and the most important operations are those which enabled the armed forces to recover U.S Stinger missiles and a large quantity of weapons in El Oued, to prove the seriousness of the situation on the borders that are stretching at the level of the state of El Oued only at about 340 kilometres.

Works are continuing for the construction of a land fence, which launched on the Algerian-Tunisian border, where the first part of it was completed, as it is composed of a deep ditch, and a high sand mountain that was installed with various ways, as its completion will allow the continuous monitoring of common borders between the two countries, especially since the region is close to the Libyan territory, which is the largest store for the sale of various types of weapons in the region through Tunisia.