On Egypt border, senior IDF officer warns quietest ‘front’ has potential to erupt
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The 200-kilometer-long border Israel shares with Egypt is not considered one of the multiple fronts of the ongoing war sparked by the Hamas terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.
Yet, amid the conflict, significant changes have been taking place on the Egyptian border fence. The commander of the regional brigade charged with the border warned in an interview with The Times of Israel last week that there is potential for this “front” to erupt.
“If you ask the IDF chief of staff he’ll tell you we have seven fronts in the war. He doesn’t count this one, despite the situation here,” Col. Shemer Raviv, the commander of the Paran Regional Brigade, said during a tour of the border. The Israel-Egypt border has been largely peaceful since the two countries signed a peace agreement in 1979, Israel’s first with an Arab state. By 1982, Israeli forces had withdrawn from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, which they had conquered during previous wars, and a border between the countries was established based on an arbitrary line drawn in the sand from Rafah to Eilat, in a 1906 agreement between the British and Ottoman empires. (Read More)
On Egypt border, senior IDF officer warns quietest ‘front’ has potential to erupt
On Egypt border, senior IDF officer warns quietest ‘front’ has potential to erupt
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