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EU to Guard Gaza-Egypt Border?
[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - The European Union is willing to take up "peacekeeping tasks" on the Philadelphi Corridor, the EU's ambassador to Israel said Thursday, a day after the Israeli cabinet was told that arms smuggling across the Gaza-Egypt border has gotten completely out of hand. Ramiro Cibrian-Uzal stressed, however, that this could only be done within the framework of an agreement between the parties. Under an agreement hammered out last year by Secretary of State Rice, Israel relinquished control of the Rafah border crossing to the Palestinians, and a team of EU officials was sent there to monitor the crossing.