"If Israelis don’t control it, they don’t control Gaza,” Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes says of the Philadelphi Corridor.Among the many components of the emerging ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, one issue stands out for its singular strategic significance: The eight-mile-long border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Known as the Philadelphi Corridor, it served as the main smuggling route that enabled Hamas to amass the weapons it used to invade Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, murder some 1,200 people there and abduct another 251.his is why the IDF took hold of the Philadelphi Corridor, which it had controlled for decades before the 2005 disengagement, during its 15-month-long campaign in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed not to leave it, saying it was key to the war’s main objectives of dismantling Hamas and retrieving the hostages. (Read More)
