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| Egypt mulling buffer zone on Gaza border | |
| 2011-09-01 | |
| Egypt is considering establishing a 5km.-deep buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip, the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported Sunday, quoting high-level Egyptian security sources. Egyptian military officials are finalizing a plan to combat smuggling from the Sinai Peninsula into the strip, the report said, adding that heavy excavation equipment had already been moved into the border town of Rafah. The equipment is capable of destroying tunnels up to 20 meters below surface level.
Another high-level army source told the Egyptian daily that Cairo is studying the possibility of modifying the peace treaty with Israel regarding the number of Egyptian troops allowed in Sinai. An Israeli source, however, told the AFP news agency that Egypt has submitted no such request. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at Sunday's cabinet meeting that Israel would consider a request to modify troop levels, but that he sees no reason for the peace treaty to be substantially modified otherwise. On Saturday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel would not likely approve additional Egyptian troops in eastern Sinai, despite reports in The Economist that he had said it is in Israel's interest to do so to help bring order to the restive area. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Yeah, the DMZ concept has worked well for the Koreans. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-01 13:48 |
| #1 Damn those opressors of the poor Paleos!!! This is inhumane that the Palestinians are treated in this apartheid manner by those infernal Isra......what? This is the Egyptians? Oh well, never mind; nothing to see here. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-09-01 13:10 |