Israel is planning to construct a wall along a main highway and another route near its southern border with the Gaza Strip to hide potential targets from anti-tank missiles fired from the Palestinian enclave, the Israeli army announced Thursday.

Officials from Israel’s Transportation and Defense Ministries, as well as from the military’s engineering units, held a “cornerstone laying” ceremony the day prior near the Route 34 highway, where construction is expected to begin there in the coming months.

The “Safe Road” project includes a tall wall along 2.9 miles of the highway that runs between the southern Israeli city of Sderot and Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, just north of Gaza, as well as some parts of Route 232. Cycling lanes would also be built along the wall, the Israeli army noted.