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Egypt extends buffer zone in Sinai Peninsula

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Palestinian security forces patrol the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt on January 3, 2015. (AFP)

Karim Gamal el-Deen
Press TV, Cairo

The Egyptian prime minister has said more areas in northern Sinai will have to be evacuated to widen the border buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza. More than one-thousand people have already been displaced and hundreds of houses demolished after the Egyptian army isolated the areas to set up the buffer zone last year.


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