Israel should not give up occupation of Gaza-Egypt border, says Israeli politician

A member of parliament from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party says he won’t support the government if it agrees to withdraw Israeli troops from the Gaza-Egypt border which Israel refers to as the Philadelphi Corridor. 

“Put simply, if we won’t be at the Philadelphi Corridor, we won’t be in the State of Israel,” said the Likud parliamentarian Moshe Saada speaking to Radio 103FM, describing the border strip as Hamas’s “oxygen pipe”.

“Leaving the Philadelphi Corridor is an existential threat to the Jewish nation’s life in the Land of Israel. This is one of the red lines because unfortunately, it has been written in blood,” he says.