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Egypt concerned Gazans may storm border when IDF widens Rafah operation
Times of Israel ^ | 2/8/24 | Gianluca Pacchiani and TOI Staff

Posted on 02/08/2024 5:50:09 AM PST by Uncle Miltie

A spokesperson for Egypt’s foreign ministry says Cairo is concerned at the potential for a mass effort by Gazans to escape across the border when the Israel Defense Forces expands its operations in Rafah.

In an interview with the Egyptian news channel al-Ghad, Ahmed Abu Zeid, a spokesperson for Cairo’s Foreign Ministry, says that Egypt sees the situation Gaza’s southern Rafah region as “unbearable and catastrophic.”

“Continuing Israeli strikes on densely populated areas will create an unlivable reality. The scenario of mass displacement is a possibility. The Egyptian position on this has been very clear and straightforward: We are against this policy, and we will not allow it,” he says.

Images in recent weeks circulating on social media have shown Egypt apparently fortifying its defenses at the border, with additional barbed wire and walls.

More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are sheltering in the Rafah area, amid a spiraling humanitarian crisis.

Israel is continuing to hunt Hamas’s leadership in the southern Strip, believed to be hiding deep within the vast tunnel network the terror group dug under the Strip, which military officials assess runs for hundreds of miles.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed last week that the Israeli military will reach and dismantle Hamas’s Rafah Brigade, just as it is currently working to do to Hamas’s battalions in the Khan Younis area.

War erupted between Israel and Hamas with the terror group’s October 7 massacre. Some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel that day — most of them civilians, massacred amid brutal atrocities — and seized 253 hostages.

Vowing to destroy the terror group, Israel launched a wide-scale military campaign in Gaza.


TOPICS: Egypt; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; gaza; hamas; sinai
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Nobody wants the worthless "palestinians."
1 posted on 02/08/2024 5:50:09 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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To: Uncle Miltie

So shoot them.

Problem solved.

L


2 posted on 02/08/2024 5:50:51 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Funny how nobody is criticizing Egypt on “humanitarian’ grounds.


3 posted on 02/08/2024 5:54:07 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. . )
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To: hinckley buzzard

Every country has a right to protect their borders.

Except the liberal deep state white west.


4 posted on 02/08/2024 5:56:07 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: Uncle Miltie
Muslims don't want other Muslims. This is the correct statement of fact and theology. Jordanians of today (mostly "Palestinians") don't want the PA types. Egypt doesn't want the Hamas types. Muslims don't want other Muslims.

All that remains for the dumbass Leftists of the West to figure out is -- WHY?

We know why. But that would be "Islamophobic" to actually explain to the dull-witted Western Leftists that Muslim nations are "Islamophobic" if one accepts the stupidity of the word, a manufactured Leftist's word.

Islam cannot be digested (integrated) into other cultures, and its own cannot digest their own either.

5 posted on 02/08/2024 6:11:22 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Uncle Miltie

What type of border barriers or fortifications does Egypt have with Gaza? Is it a matter of public record?


6 posted on 02/08/2024 6:13:55 AM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: Uncle Miltie
We are against this policy, and we will not allow it,” he says.

Easily said, but how will you STOP it?

7 posted on 02/08/2024 6:30:15 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Have you SEEN the Egyptian border fence with Gaza?

No one is storming that without a Desert Storm level effort. Egypt believes in fences, especially when Gaza Arabs are involved.


8 posted on 02/08/2024 6:37:33 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: desertsolitaire; FreedomPoster

How the Egyptians feel about the "palestinian" arab muslims.

9 posted on 02/08/2024 6:45:02 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Funny how Egypt has a right to border control...


10 posted on 02/08/2024 6:51:34 AM PST by Texan4Life
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To: Uncle Miltie

Hmm. Thanks.


11 posted on 02/08/2024 6:52:46 AM PST by desertsolitaire
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To: Uncle Miltie

That is OUR fence, just south of Yuma!!!


Oh; wait...

12 posted on 02/08/2024 7:09:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Didn’t President Trump have Israel and Egypt on good speaking terms?


13 posted on 02/08/2024 7:34:19 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Didn’t President Trump have Israel and Egypt on good speaking terms?


14 posted on 02/08/2024 7:34:23 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Bangladesh apparently doesn’t want the Muslims from Burma either. Sees them as a threat.


15 posted on 02/08/2024 7:39:54 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Uncle Miltie

There it is!

Serious business.


16 posted on 02/08/2024 8:01:46 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: hanamizu

Muslims don’t get along with Muslims, let alone non-Muslims. And when the Buddhists are pissed off at you, you have to be seriously reprehensible.


17 posted on 02/08/2024 8:04:24 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Uncle Miltie

No country ever in the history of the world has wanted them. You’d have thought they’d have realized why and become civilized a few thousand years ago.


18 posted on 02/08/2024 8:12:40 AM PST by bgill
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To: Uncle Miltie

The guys in that truck aren’t handing out free phones, $5k or voter registrations.


19 posted on 02/08/2024 8:17:02 AM PST by bgill
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To: Uncle Miltie
Egypt concerned Gazans Hamas may storm border when IDF widens Rafah operation.
20 posted on 02/08/2024 8:23:44 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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