Thursday, June 7 8:14 PM SGT Army submits plan for security zone between Israel and West Bank: paper JERUSALEM, June 7 (AFP) - Israel's army and police have drafted a plan to set up a "dividing strip," or security zone, along the demarcation line between Israel and the West Bank to prevent "terrorist" infiltrations, the Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported Thursday. The series of measures aimed at cracking down on infiltrators was handed Wednesday to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer and Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau and will cost an estimated 250 million dollars, the newspaper said. The Israeli daily revealed the main points of the plan, drafted following a string of deadly suicide attacks on the Israeli coast, the country's most vulnerable spot, where the distance from the West Bank is sometimes as short as 15 kilometres (10 miles). In Israel's deadliest attack in years, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Tel Aviv nightclub last Friday, killing another 20 people. According to the plan, the army would control the sector which lies east of the security strip, while the police would control the western side. If the plan is approved, a special military command would be set up to control the new buffer zone, which should follow the green line marking the division between Israel and the West Bank until Israel took the territory from Jordan in the June 1967 war. Herewith the main points of the plan as published by the Yediot Aharonot: - A dividing strip, apparently a few hundred meters (yards) wide, on the eastern side of the green line. The strip would be declared a closed military zone, off-limits to vehicles and pedestrians. Anyone going into it in daylight would be arrested, and shot at night. - Foot patrols by army forces and guard dogs along the dividing strip. - Video cameras and radar would monitor movement in the strip. - An electronic fence in "sensitive" areas of the strip near Israeli communities. But Sharon has opposed erecting a fence before a settlement is reached on the final status of the Palestinian territories, due to the high cost of such a project and "so as not to hint that Israel accepts the 1967 line as the border," the newspaper said. The daily quoted sources in Israel's security establishment who believe that this time the plan has a chance of being implemented, unlike earlier rejected plans. CIA chief George Tenet kicked off a regional tour Wednesday aimed at reviving security talks between Israel and the Palestinians after eight months of violence have killed some 600 people.