Israeli lawmakers came out against a proposal to post Egyptian troops along the Egypt-Gaza border. The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee demanded Wednesday that the government bring any decision on Egyptian border deployment to the Parliament for approval, as it would effectively rescind a clause in the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement requiring that the Sinai desert be demilitarized.
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