Egyptian Army soldiers in Sinai peninsula, By the Egyptian Ministry of Defense.
Egypt’s foreign minister said on February 17 that his country would deal with civilians humanely, but warned that the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip remained unacceptable.
“It is not our intention to provide any safe areas or facilities, but necessarily if this was a case we will deal with the humanity that is necessary,” Sameh Shoukry said at the Munich Security Conference.
According to reports, Egypt has been preparing an area at the Gaza border that could accommodate Palestinians in case an Israeli military offensive into Rafah prompts an exodus across the frontier. Cairohas repeatedly denied making such preparations.
“This is very hypothetical. We have constantly been dealing with maintenance on our border so I think it is jumping to conclusions as to what those activities constitute,” Shoukry said of construction activity seen around the border.
Refuting recent reports, the governor of North Sinai said that the armed forces are establishing a logistics zone to receive aid for Gaza.
The area being established includes parking areas for trucks, warehouses, administrative offices, and accommodation for drivers, according to the governor.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi conveyed to French President Emmanuel Macron during a call on February 18 Cairo’s “categorical rejection of the displacement of Palestinians to Egypt in any shape or form,” noting that the position “enjoys full international consensus.”
Macron affirmed France’s support for the Egyptian stance, according to a statement released by the Egyptian Presidency and carried by the state’s information service.
The two leaders agreed that progress must be made on a deal that leads to “a stop to the bloodshed and alleviation of the current human suffering in Gaza,” and discussed efforts to secure a ceasefire, a hostage release deal, and an increased delivery of humanitarian aid to the Strip.
Egypt has repeatedly raised the alarm over the possibility that an Israeli military offensive into Rafah could displace Palestinains into Sinai. More than one million civilians are currently taking shelter in the border area. Several other Arab countries, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have already warned against such an offensive.
The main source of worry for Egypt and others is that Israel will not likely allow any Palestinian who would leave Gaza to return.
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shame on egypt…cowards. they are too busy taking bribes from anglo zionist dogs
the other side if egypt permit the proposal it will become disaster for palestinian cause the satanyahu will not allow the palestinians come to their homeland anymore and satanyahu will win without dificulty.
what do you want them to do?
okay, what did nato do after russia invade ukraine? nothing. it is not egypt-israel war now is it?
israel is weak right now and these nazi zionists might as well use nuclear weapon and egypt has fuking chemical weapons… for them it is not a good idea. i don’t talk for a state buddy and i ask you what have you done… coward? nothing. israel said 11 times they going to invade rafah… are they cowards?
so, this means that now the israelis will do double the displacement from previous plans. that special moment when you light your house on fire expecting to collect but leave gasoline and matches outside partially empty when you call the fire department smelling of gas. the hebrew supremacists have some explaining to do, because they are behaving like senile sniffer biden. egypt is doing everything possible to make it exceptionally clear.
useless oil monarchs british control sheiks.warning without action just like usa lap dog erdogan.get out from those long table cloth and start fighting usa
informational domain warfare. egypt cannot do anything, during the 70’s and 80’s the goverment were completely taken by the westerners. they will accept whatever their masters wanted to egypt to do, and they are just pretending that they would not allow people of palestine, because of their internal political struggles. egypt is an enslaved goverment, well bribed well paid by their masters.
i knew el-sissi was all mouth. he bluster that he would not allow israel to push the palestinians out and now he is ready for them to come. it looks like the egyptian people need a new real leader and not a flunky!
how many times hezbollah said if israel invade gaza they will invade israel? where are they… are they all talks as well now?
stop putting your feeling at the front, russia didn’t invade ukraine for years… only when they saw nato really going to move into ukraine they invaded ukraine…
also, now sisi is seen as a hero? he told zionists that hamas was going to attack… now you all writing stories and putting a whole fake image on sisi… how?
unacceptable, so what are you going to do, egypt? cairo is a nice place with streets untouched and lots of dollars coming in to float your boats. the moment you attack israel, the rat-demons turn your place into new libia in a week, at the latest….
what egypt should have done a long time ago before the resistence came to action in occupied palestine is put air defences at the border so they can shoot down the zionist planes in defence of the palestinian people. palestine is a neighbor of egypt, and can ask for protection. there now must be a coalition of free countrys ready in libanon, syria, egypt and the mediteranean ready to clean palestine from the occupators. bla blabla and warning and bla bla bla will just do nothing !!!
hahaha are you living in your fairy tale hollywood propaganda of the western world, egypt is not a non aligned goverment, actually its quite the opossite, its a fully surrendered goverment, only acts according to their master deeds. stop watching hollywood propaganda and start living the real world, reality first not fiction.