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Egypt’s army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ahmed Fathy Khalifa, made an unannounced visit on Thursday, 5 September, to inspect the security situation along the border with the Gaza Strip, according to the army’s spokesperson. This surprise inspection follows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent statement highlighting the Philadelphi Corridor—a narrow strip along the Gaza-Egypt border—as a critical route for Hamas’s rearmament and asserting the need for Israeli control over the area for national security. The inspection tour began with…