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Egypt to expand buffer zone on border with Gaza
03 January 2015 23:40 (Last updated 03 January 2015 23:42)
Egypt had initially planned to create a 500-meter wide buffer zone along the border with the Palestinian territory.
NORTH SINAI, Egypt
Egypt will on Sunday start expanding to a kilometer a buffer zone it began creating on its border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a security source has said.
Egypt had initially planned to create a 500-meter wide buffer zone along the border with the Palestinian territory.
The decision was taken in November of last year, a short time after a deadly attack on Egyptian troops deployed in Sinai left around 31 troops dead and a similar number wounded.
The security source, who requested anonymity, said on Saturday that the authorities had already counted 1,200 houses that would be evacuated within the new buffer zone expansion plan.
He said the Egyptian government would compensate the owners and the residents of these houses.
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Egypt to expand buffer zone on border with Gaza
03 January 2015 23:40 (Last updated 03 January 2015 23:42)
Egypt had initially planned to create a 500-meter wide buffer zone along the border with the Palestinian territory.
NORTH SINAI, Egypt
Egypt will on Sunday start expanding to a kilometer a buffer zone it began creating on its border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip, a security source has said.
Egypt had initially planned to create a 500-meter wide buffer zone along the border with the Palestinian territory.
The decision was taken in November of last year, a short time after a deadly attack on Egyptian troops deployed in Sinai left around 31 troops dead and a similar number wounded.
The security source, who requested anonymity, said on Saturday that the authorities had already counted 1,200 houses that would be evacuated within the new buffer zone expansion plan.
He said the Egyptian government would compensate the owners and the residents of these houses.
Continue reading at:
Egypt to expand buffer zone on border with Gaza Anadolu Agency?
