Egypt Seeks to Increase Forces Along Border with Israel

(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - Egypt has proposed deploying an additional 3,000 to 3,500 policemen along its border with Israel from the Gaza Strip to Taba near Eilat. This Thursday Israel and Egypt are expected to finalize the first stage of a new Egyptian border deployment around Rafah on the Gazan-Egyptian border, where Egypt plans to deploy 750 border policemen to combat arms smuggling from Sinai into Gaza.


2005-02-07 00:00:00

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