Report: Israel to allow Egypt to deploy troops in Sinai

[oberliner]

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel will soon allow Egypt to deploy thousands of troops in the Sinai Peninsula, the Economist reported on Friday.

According to the report, Israel will allow helicopters and armored vehicles into Sinai, but will forbid the entrance of tanks.

The move comes after the series of terror attacks in southern Israel on August 18, which left eight people dead. Israel and Egypt believe the gunmen responsible for the attacks were militants that infiltrated from the Gaza Strip via Egypt's neighboring Sinai desert.

Officials also suspect that militants from Sinai had also joined the Gaza gunmen in carrying out the attacks on Israelis.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-israel-to-allow-egypt-to-deploy-troops-in-sinai-1.380802

[azurnoir]

1. interesting thanks n/t

[Owlet]

2. This section of the article answers a question I had

"The deployment of Egyptian troops in Sinai violates the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, in which both countries agreed that the Sinai Peninsula will be a military-free zone.

'Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs,' the Economist quoted Barak as saying."