This includes approximately 40,000 soldiers, air defense systems, and tanks being deployed to the area, according to the report.

The border with Egypt along the southern edge was the Gaza Strip’s only land border that Israel had not controlled directly. Earlier on Wednesday, Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah.

The Philadelphi Corridor was established about four decades ago as a 100-meter-wide demilitarized zone all along the Gaza side of the border, as part of an agreement between Israel and Egypt.

The corridor seized by Israel was long intended to be a demilitarized zone between Gaza and Egypt. Hamas has controlled it since its 2007 takeover of the seaside strip.

A view of a tunnel which the military says Hamas militants used in the southern Gaza Strip, about a 100 meters from the Philadelphi Corridor along the border with Egypt, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.

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Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump’s proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over.