Is Egypt preparing to welcome refugees from Gaza in the event of an offensive against Rafah?

2024-02-16T13:01:40.733Z

Highlights: Is Egypt preparing to welcome refugees from Gaza in the event of an offensive against Rafah?. The compound which should welcome Gazans fleeing the war will be surrounded by a large wall. Egyptian authorities have denied the construction of a camp for Palestinian refugees in Sinai. For the Egyptians, supported by all Arab governments, it would be a new “ Nakba ” when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had fled after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. The fourteen kilometers of borders between Egypt and Gaza are defended by a double concrete wall six meters high and a no man's land five kilometers wide.

Egypt is preparing twenty square kilometers of land near Gaza to accommodate more than 100,000 people in anticipation of an Israeli offensive against the town of Rafah. This is what the…

Is Egypt preparing to welcome refugees from Gaza in the event of an offensive against Rafah?

Egypt is preparing twenty square kilometers of land near Gaza to accommodate more than 100,000 people in anticipation of an Israeli offensive against the town of Rafah. This is what the Wa

ll Street Journal

and the Reuters agency say, citing unidentified Egyptian sources. They add that the compound which should welcome Gazans fleeing the war will be surrounded by a large wall. According to the Wall Street Journal and the Reuters agency, the compound which should accommodate Gazans fleeing the war will be surrounded by a large wall.

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their homes due to Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, shelter in a tent camp, in Rafah, February 8, 2024. © Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reurters

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Cairo

Alexandre Buccianti

Egyptian authorities have denied the construction of a camp for Palestinian refugees in Sinai. Officially, Cairo's position remains unchanged regarding the refusal of a forced displacement of Gazans towards the Sinai.

For the Egyptians, supported by all Arab governments, it would be a new “

Nakba

” when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had fled after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

Also listen to The Nakba: an event with a still conflicting memory

A position reiterated in recent days by President

Abdel Fattah al-Sissi

during the visit to Egypt by his Turkish counterpart

Recep Tayip Erdogan

. The two presidents also warned against an Israeli offensive targeting Rafah, the last refuge of Palestinians in the south of Gaza.

The fourteen kilometers of borders between Egypt and Gaza are defended by a double concrete wall six meters high and a no man's land five kilometers wide. Reinforcements of men, tanks and armored vehicles were recently sent to the border.

Is Egypt preparing to welcome refugees from Gaza in the event of an offensive against Rafah?

Is Egypt preparing to welcome refugees from Gaza in the event of an offensive against Rafah?

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