PREVIEW: From a longer conversation later tonight with Brig General Yossi Kuperwasser (res) in Jerusalem re the Rafah Border Crossing at the south end of the Gaza Strip. Can it be secured after the defeat of Hamas? Can the Egyptians be trusted to block
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
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Yossi Kuperwasser- Yossi Kuperwasser Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He was formerly Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs and head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence.
1867 Grand Mosque in Gaza
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| 0:34.0 | Iossi Cooper Vassar in Jerusalem about the Raffa crossing that's the southern end of the |
| 0:39.6 | Gaza Strip. The Raffa crossing leads directly into Egypt, the Sinai. The question is, can it be secured |
| 0:47.4 | after the Hamas is defeated in Gaza? Can it be secured? Can it be made in a fashion that the |
| 0:56.0 | weapons and the smuggling won't start all over again? Trusting the Egyptians was the |
| 1:01.0 | model before. Yossi explains, Raffa crossing needs more than trusting the Egyptians going forward. |
| 1:08.0 | Here's the general to describe a situation that is imminent. |
| 1:14.0 | Once the Gaza Strip is secured, how do you secure the entrance from the Sinai and the smugglers |
| 1:20.2 | and the bad actors who will pour back in if permitted. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, on the surface, yes. |
| 1:27.0 | The answer is yes. |
| 1:29.0 | There are ongoing negotiations with the Egyptians of how to deal with the Rafach corridor and with the Jaldefi |
| 1:34.6 | corridor and to make sure that the Egyptians and Israel are cooperating in blocking the ability |
| 1:42.2 | of Hamas to smuggle weapons and other commodities underneath the ground in the big huge tunnels that are |
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