Egypt Building Walled Enclosure for Palestinians Fleeing Gaza, Photos Suggest

A monitoring group in Egypt has released evidence of construction work taking place in Rafah on the border with Gaza that may be intended to house Palestinians fleeing from the potential Israeli assault on the city.

Photos and videos released by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights (SFHR), a monitoring group, have captured workers operating heavy machinery and erecting concrete walls and security towers along the border with Gaza near the Rafah crossing.

The videos, dated February 15th, don’t appear to show the Egyptian authorities installing water or other infrastructure, and satellite images published by Planet Labs on the same day show cleared strips of land close to the Gaza border.

The human rights group said on social media that the videos showed efforts to “establish an isolated area surrounded by walls on the border with the Gaza Strip, with the aim of receiving refugees in the event of a mass exodus.”

It is estimated by the UN that Israel’s bombardment of Gaza since Hamas’s October 7th attacks has displaced around 1.7 million Palestinians in the enclave with the majority of them forced south in recent weeks. There are more than half a million in Egypt’s Rafah increasing the city’s pre-war population of 280,000.

Egypt’s officials have, on several occasions, shared concerns that Israel’s invasion could push millions of Palestinians to flee across the border and into the Sinai, further highlighting that those displaced may never be able to return. The north African country has stood firmly in opposition to the notion suggested by Israeli ministers and others that Palestinians could flee to northern Sinai. President Abdel Fatah-al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry of Egypt rejected what they have termed “the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land.”

In a call Thursday, US President Joe Biden cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against proceeding with a military operation in Rafah in the absence of a “credible and executable plan” to protect civilians, as reported by The Guardian. However, Netanyahu said on Friday he rejects “international dictates” on a long-term resolution of his country’s conflict with the Palestinians.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said there were no plans to deport Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and added that Israel would coordinate with Egypt in its plans for hundreds of thousands of refugees in the city of Rafah.

When questioned as to where the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would go, Katz said that once Gaza’s second city, Khan Younis, had been rid of Hamas fighters, they could go back there or to the west of the enclave.

Palestinians were kicked out of Jordon years ago, they have a culture of rape, murder and arson, and of killing jews. Thats what they teach their kids.

I am sure the Egyptians want nothng to do with them.

Palestinians are not even a People,,,,the name was given to them by Yassar Arafat,IN truth they are just blood thirsty beduoins who attempted to overthrow the King Jordon years ago to seize Jordoan for themselves..., Jordon’s Army shelled their refugee camps killing them by the tens of thousands and so they were forced out of Jordan.

NOw they think they are legitimate as a defined people after Oct 7th? Hamas and most so called Palestinians are barbarians.And their end times have come. Egypt creates an anvil for the IDF hammer.

A possible strategic cooperation between Egypt and Israel is that Egypt will only allow non-Hamas refugees into Egypt and openly state that the war is between Hamas and Israel. They would further state that Hamas should finish the war it started. The unspoken agreement between the two countries would be that Israel totally crush Hamas and put an end to their depravity.

I believe that many nations in the Middle East are growing tired of war and want the stability and prosperity of peace.

The videos, dated February 15th, don’t appear to show the Egyptian authorities installing water or other infrastructure

After 75 years, Gaza's "refugee camps" were full on cities and towns, with shopping, hotels, malls, hospitals, infrastructure, etc. I suspect this coming refugee camp will allow no permanent structures. It will be a camp, with tents. It will stink. It will be hot, cold, wet. It will be miserable. Like a refugee camp is expected to be. People will want to leave. To anywhere.

Egypt is making sure this refugee camp isn’t permanent, like the ones in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon. Palestinians have a bad habit of staying in their host countries and fomenting uprisings. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel and Lebanon have all seen what happens in Palestinian “refugee camps” if you allow them to take root.

President Sisi would be wise to ignore the gnashing and wailing about these conditions. These basic and uncomfortable conditions will ensure they leave at the first opportunity. I just hope they don’t end up here.

Thank you fpr the link on Black Septemer.

It is ludicrous beyong the extreme now to see the King of zJor4don beside Cheater Joe imploring that there be a two state solution. The plae of the laterly caed Palestinians is in Jordon . Now they wamt Israel.

This is pseudo nation of Palestine located in Gaza requires and deserves utter destruction....no two state soluition, Jordon is the secod stste but Hussein II kniows that Hamas and the so caled Paestinians will remove the Jordanian Monarchy from Jordon.izarre history....you can’t make this stuff up.

Cheater Joe and Hussein II, Jordon IS the second state.....
but thise two lewzers hoodwink everyone but a few.

My pleasure. In 1967 there was an editorial cartoon showing two soldiers, one saying to the other, "The Six Day War is 3,000 years old."

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