(Ha'aretz) Gideon Alon - The Knesset subcommittee that supervises covert services decided Tuesday to warn the ministers in the political-security cabinet against approving a plan to have 750 Egyptian soldiers stationed on the Philadelphi route. "Based on the material before us, it is clear the Egyptians see the stationing of 750 soldiers with armored vehicles in the Philadelphi region as an opportunity for the beginning of a return of military sovereignty in the eastern Sinai," the subcommittee stated. Egypt has requested the additional deployment of thousands of soldiers and armored vehicles along the Negev, the statement added.
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