Arish, Egypt, Sept 10, SPA -- Egypt deployed the first batch of 750 border troops along its desert frontier with the Gaza Strip on Saturday in line with Israel's withdrawal from the Palestinian area, an Egyptian official said. Mohammed Youssef, an official with the Egyptian State Information Service based in the Egyptian border city of Rafah, said 200 soldiers were deployed on Saturday and the remainder would take their places during the next four days. "This is the beginning of the deployment of 750 Egyptian border soldiers along the Philadelphi corridor according to the agreement between the Egyptians and the Israelis to maintain security along the Gaza-Egypt border after the Israeli withdrawal," Youssef told The Associated Press.
