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...Gaza, which was in fact a part of the old Palestine mandate and had never been Egyptian soil since the days of Rameses the Great, 3,500 years before. The Israelis also demanded guaranties of free navigation through the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba before withdrawing from Sharm el Sheikh and Tiran, the strongholds from which Nasser had blocked their access to the gulf and the port of Elath...