Egypt significantly boosted its border police garrison south of the Gaza Strip. Five thousand new troops joined some 750 already stationed on the Egypt-Gaza border on Saturday in what Cairo officials called a response to Israeli threats of military action against Palestinian arms smuggling there.
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