This is John Batchel, speaking with colleagues Seth Fransman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

the combat correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, about the Philadelphia Corridor, separating Gaza from the Egyptian Sinai,

questions raised throughout the fighting about the tunnels underneath the Philadelphia Corridor,

about the Rafa crossing, about security, about the tunnels underneath the Philadelphia corridor, about the Rafa crossing,

about security, about Egypt looking the other way, or, and Seth answers in detail here about what is to be done. Israel wants to maintain security on the Philadelphia corridor. Egypt has not

committed to that.

What's next?

Seth Fransman,

Jerusalem Post,

foundation for the defense of democracy

on the passageways

underneath and atop

the Philadelphia corridor between Gaza and Sinai.

More of this tonight. Well, I think it has been shown in the last decade or more that Hamas obviously was able to turn itself from a pretty bad

terrorist group to a sort of terror empire in Gaza, and the weapons must have come from somewhere.

So it stands to reason that some of it came

from the Egyptian border and probably not all of it through tunnels. Probably some of it came

over land, which is very concerning. I think that, you know, Netanyahu has made it a point since

March or April, basically to talk a lot about this Philadelphia area and that Rafa crossing as a key area that he wants to keep, or first of all, to take it and then keep it.

Cairo may oppose that, but it's not clear that Cairo has floated any other idea.

I mean, I don't think that Egypt has stepped up to the plate and said, okay, you know what, we'd like to help you replace Hamas.

We recognize that this was, you know, bad things happen. Now we'd like to play, engage more with this.

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