Why Egypt refuses to open its border to Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza
- Written by: Liyana Kayali, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
Around 1.5 million Palestinian civilians are currently squeezed into the southern Gaza city of Rafah after repeatedly being forced by Israeli bombardment and ground assaults to evacuate further and further south.
The town, which originally had a population of 250,000, is now host to more than half of Gaza’s entire population. They are...
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