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Tue 02 Feb 2011Israel lets Egpyt move its troops into Sinai
REDEPLOYMENT: EGYPTIAN TROOPS have redeployed within the Sinai peninsula for the first time since Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979.
About 800 soldiers arrived in the area of Sharm el-Sheikh, at the southern tip of the Sinai, and along the Gaza border on Sunday after Cairo received the green light from Israel.
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