The United States has reportedly been putting pressure on Egypt to deploy its army in the Gaza Strip after the war ends in the besieged Palestinian Strip, Israel’s Channel 7 reported.

The channel said Cairo is “not enthusiastic” about the American proposal, adding that senior US officials have recently visited Cairo to put pressure on the Egyptian government to deploy a military force in the Gaza Strip, as part of the agreement to end Israel’s war on the enclave.

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    3 months ago

    Seems like the idea emanated from Egypt and other Arab states. Egypt just has conditions it wants to meet first:

    Several Arab countries, led by Egypt, have in recent months presented the Americans with a document of principles for the day after the war in Gaza, which also included the possibility of deploying troops, conditional on achieving the two-state solution – which includes the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.