Egypt has blockaded Gaza’s southern border on and off since 2007.
Palestinians, some with foreign passports, hoping to cross into Egypt and others waiting for aid wait at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.As Gaza runs out of fuel and water for the nearly 1 million Palestinians who have fled from north to south, Egypt—which could relieve much of the pressure by opening its border—has refused to do so.
Many have focused on Israel’s blockade of Gaza’s northern border since Hamas took control of the tiny strip of land in 2007—but Egypt has blockaded Gaza’s southern border since then as well.with Cairo, this past Sunday, to open the Rafah crossing on Egypt’s border, but as of Tuesday afternoon, it remains closed.. The terrorist group wants to block Gazans from leaving so that Israel can be blamed for any further deaths and suffering.
Gaza used to be part of Egypt until the Six-Day War in 1967, when Egypt, Syria, and Jordan invaded Israel—and Israel beat them back, conquering and occupying the Sinai, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip in the process. It remained in Gaza until 2005, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdrew from the territory, deeming it more trouble than it was worth,The pullout did not resolve the tensions, which had been building for decades.
President Biden will be visiting Israel on Wednesday, mainly as a show of solidarity with Jerusalem’s wartime unity government. But some suspect that he will have some announcements to make—deals that Secretary of State Antony Blinken has all but wrapped up in his crisscrossing shuttle diplomacy through the region. The hope is that one of them concerns help for the nearly 1 million displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza.
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