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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 7. April 9 1979

Sinai

Sinai

Israel is to withdraw its forces from the Sinai Peninsula, over the next nine months. At the end of this period all Israeli troops are to be positioned east of a line running from El Arish to Ras Muhammad, the southern most tip of Sinai. Over a three year period, Israel will remove its military forces and settlers from all of Sinai. Most of the area will be demilitarised; Egypt can only station a single division on the peninsula and only within 31 miles of the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Suez. The UN will station troops along the Gulf of Aqaba and the eastern border of the Sinai. Within a nearly two mile-wide strip on the other side of the line, Israeli forces will be limited to four battalions. The two airfields that Israel built in the Sinai will be restricted to Egyptian civilian use.