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Egypt Showing Flexibility on IDF Staying along Gaza Border to Block Arms Smuggling
(Times of Israel) Jacob Magid - After long rejecting the idea in public, Cairo is privately moving toward allowing IDF troops to remain in the Philadelphi Corridor, used by Hamas to smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza, Israeli officials told the Times of Israel on Tuesday. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that the IDF remaining in Philadelphi was nonnegotiable. An Israeli official said of Egypt, "They, too, don't want Hamas to resume smuggling on the border."