An Israeli negotiating team has reportedly returned from Cairo on August 19 without reaching an agreement on the Philadelphi Corridor. The Corridor is a 14-kilometer demilitarised buffer zone along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.It includes the Rafah Crossing, which, until May, was Gaza’s only outlet to the outside world not controlled by Israel.Reports say that Egypt maintains that Israel must withdraw its troops from the Philadelphi Corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border. The Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which is negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza with Israel, also insisted on Tel Aviv’s full withdrawal from the border area.“No progress has been made in the talks on the Philadelphi Corridor,” Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.
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