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##EGYPT: IDF finds up to fifty tunnels under the Philadelphi Route. Yaakov Lappin is a military and strategic affairs analyst at JNS, the Miryam Institute, and the Alma Center. You can follow his work, as well as his Middle East Q & A video series, at th

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

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##EGYPT: IDF finds up to fifty tunnels under the Philadelphi Route. Yaakov Lappin is a military and strategic affairs analyst at JNS, the Miryam Institute, and the Alma Center. You can follow his work, as well as his Middle East Q & A video series, at the Strategic Assessment Patreon website.MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/05/idf-unearths-more-tunnels-gains-control-of-philadelphi-corridor.php

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0:00.0

This is

0:05.2

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor.

0:09.7

Here's John Bachelor.

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My good friend and colleague and co-host, Malcolm, online conference, the President's,

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Major American Jewish Organizations,

0:18.0

we're very pleased to welcome our colleague

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Yakov Lopin, who is the Strategic Affairs Analysis at JNS at the

0:26.0

Miriam Institute, the Alma Center, and helps you can follow him at a

0:30.2

Strategic Assessment Patreon website.

0:33.2

Right now we're going to the news fog of war that the IDF is taking control of the

0:39.2

Philadelphia route, that's Philadelphia without the A at the end. It is sand about 150 yards wide.

0:48.1

I wrote it once with the Galani Brigade. It was at once fortified against attacks by Ratha during the many years of Hamas domination of the Gaza Strip.

1:01.0

Now it is said to be under the control of the IDF who are patrolling it. It's an

1:05.8

international border. The other side of the wall is Egypt. There are also said to be

1:10.3

tunnels, many tunnels discovered. In fact, it's metaphorically been described to me as a highway of tunnels.

1:16.0

Yakoff, a very good evening to you.

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Correct me if I have my headlines wrong, but we're looking at something must be done about Egypt turning a blind eye or

1:26.2

cooperating with those tunnels is the conversation underway good evening to you

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Yachoff good evening. Absolutely.

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Look, there are only two possible explanations for why an estimated 50 tunnels were running

1:39.7

and active underneath that Philadelphia quarter linking

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Sinai in Egypt to Rafah in southern Gaza,

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