The group dug smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Route on Gaza’s Sinai border and received backing from Hezbollah and Iran. Samhadana was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2006, leading to a ...

The Morag Corridor will extend 3.1 miles into the Strip as Israel moves to cut off Hamas supply lines from the Sinai.The post IDF to evacuate Rafah, create buffer zone ...

Gaza-Sinai Border Looms as Hostage Deal’s Top Strategic Issue. By. Canaan Lidor - 17 Tevet 5785 – January 17, 2025. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas had 50 smuggling tunnels, some large enough to drive vans through, that it dug under the Egyptian-controlled Philadelphi Corridor, wrote researchers Yair Kleinbaum and Yossi ...

Among the many components of the emerging ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, one issue stands out for its singular strategic significance: The eight-mile-long border between the Gaza Strip ...

But there may be other possibilities. Egypt reportedly poured sewage into smuggling tunnels from Gaza. Fighting. Urban warfare is difficult, requiring specific knowledge and equipment; Tunnel combat ...

Hamas turned a maze of tunnels in Gaza into weapons factories and well-stocked fortifications. A year after the war began, parts of the group remain deeply entrenched.

The map of the Gaza Strip shows the Philadelphi Corridor, its border with Egypt, and highlights Rafah. Detail area. ... Years ago, it destroyed the main smuggling tunnels, ...

ON ISRAELI tactical maps the narrow corridor along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is code-named “Philadelphi”. It is a rubble-strewn wasteland, just 14km long and around a ...

The Philadelphi Protocol stipulated that Egypt would deploy hundreds of border patrol officers along the corridor to prevent smuggling. The Palestinian Authority would control it from the Gaza side.

“Gaza must be demilitarized, and this can only happen if the Philadelphi corridor remains under firm control,” he said, claiming Israeli troops had discovered dozens of tunnels under the border. He ...

What was Netanyahu’s map and ‘plan for Gaza’ all about? Israeli prime minister presented a plan and map that showed an annexed West Bank and Gaza under Israeli army control.