Egyptian authorities are building a huge camp, surrounded by high concrete walls, in the Sinai desert, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Cairo is worried regarding a possible mass exodus from the Gaza Strip when his army Israel begin a ground attack on Rafa, the publication explains.
The newspaper, citing Egyptian officials and experts, said around 100,000 people might be accommodated in tents at the camp, which is not far from the border with the Gaza Strip.
BREAKING| @Sinaifhr says that Egypt started establishing a walled buffer zone in Sinai to receive Palestinians following forcefully expelling them from Gaza.
The human rights organization stated that the establishment of the buffer zone has already started by an Egyptian company… pic.twitter.com/pjXpF2T4Oy
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 14, 2024
In recent weeks, Egyptian authorities have been stepping up security measures, deploying troops, armored personnel carriers and erecting or reinforcing fences to prevent a massive influx of refugees from the Palestinian enclave.
The despicable @AlsisiOfficial is helping the terrorist @netanyahu to build a new prison for Gazans in Sinai, Egypt 🔥
Quran 8:30
“They planned, but Allah also planned. And Allah is the best of planners.” pic.twitter.com/QUphV822T3— The Muslim Canadian 🇨🇦 (@zMuslimCanadian) February 16, 2024
The camp is being built as a precaution, in case a large number of Gazans cross the border, according to the Journal’s text.
The governor in North Sinai province has denied the camp is being built for Palestinians, saying it is intended for Egyptians displaced by recent operations by the Egyptian armed forces once morest Islamic State jihadists.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his army days ago to prepare to launch an attack on Rafa, according to him its “last stronghold” Hamas.
This is “New #Rafah” which #Egypt built in North Sinai following destroying the old egyptian Rafah, which was adjacent to the border with #Gaza.
The city is filled with empty residential towers. Why does Egypt prevents gazans from evacuating there?
Egyptians hate palestinians… pic.twitter.com/ALzh8xgGW6
— PF (@PalestinFiction) February 16, 2024
Some 1.3 million Palestinians, in other words more than half the population of the Gaza Strip, have flocked to the city, on the closed border with Egypt, where they went following fleeing their homes in other areas of the enclave, to escape from the war that has been raging for more than four months.
Egypt seeks to limit the number of refugees
According to the publication, Egypt is seeking to limit the number of refugees as much as possible, to accept no more than 50,000 to 60,000.
According to iefimerida, Egypt’s government has gone so far as to threaten Israel with ending the bilateral peace agreement (1979) if there is a massive influx of refugees from the Gaza Strip, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The report states that an Israeli army officer said that the scenario of driving the civilian population north, out of the war zone but inside the enclave, is being considered.
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