(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn and Amos Harel - Israel and Egypt have agreed in principle to a deployment of 750 Egyptian soldiers along the Philadelphi route. The Egyptian presence is supposed to help stop arms smuggling from Sinai to Gaza. The Egyptians will apparently deploy in September, and Israel will withdraw from the Philadelphi route in October. According to the agreement, Egyptian forces are not to bring tanks or anti-tank weapons, or construct permanent military infrastructure. Its soldiers will carry light arms only, and be outfitted with observation equipment and armored vehicles suitable for police. The Egyptians announced that they would shortly be dispatching a large force of security advisors to assist the Palestinians.
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