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'We are cutting up the strip': Israel deploys troops to new corridor across southern Gaza

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Israel says troops have deployed to a newly established security corridor across southern Gaza .

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the new Morag Corridor on Wednesday .

He suggested it would cut off the southern city of Rafah , which Israel has ordered evacuated, from the rest of Gaza .

Maps published by Israeli media showed the new corridor running the width of the narrow coastal strip from east to west.