The border, which divides the city of Rafah, was set up under the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979. The map of the Gaza Strip shows the Philadelphi Corridor, its border with Egypt, and highlights ...

(CNN) — Israel will not withdraw its forces from the Gaza-Egypt border as would be required under the second phase of a truce with Hamas, an Israeli source says, even as it dispatches a team for ...

Israel’s refusal to withdraw from a narrow strip of desert on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt, as called for in the ceasefire with Hamas, could further threaten the fragile truce.