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CIAO DATE: 05/06
A New Reality on the Egypt-Gaza Border (Part I): Contents of the New Israel-Egypt Agreement
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
By Brooke Neuman
Peace Watch #518
September 19, 2005
Abstract
On September 1, 2005, following lengthy negotiations, Egypt and Israel signed the Agreed Arrangements Regarding the Deployment of a Designated Force of Border Guards along the Border in the Rafah Area (the Agreed Arrangements). This agreement was designed to enable Israel to evacuate the Philadelphia corridor, an eight-mile (thirteen-kilometer) military zone along the Gaza-Egypt border, through the deployment of Egyptian border patrol forces to the Egyptian side of the border in order to prevent smuggling into Gaza. In eighty-three clauses, the agreement describes the mission, weaponry, infrastructure, and obligations of the parties.
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