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Where’s Egypt in all of this? Are they going to send aid through the border? Or are IDF goons guarding the border with Egypt as well?
Last I heard Egypt readied a bunch of vehicles to evacuate people. Israel has bombed or shelled the crossing.
That's the opposite of what I've read, which is that closed the border indefinitely.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/bombardments-hit-area-gaza-sinai-border-crossing-gaza-officials-2023-10-10/
https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-indefinitely-closes-rafah-border-gaza
The literal first article title you posted is that bombardments hit the crossing
Palestinians don’t have artillery, so only one side can bombard.
IMO, the Egyptian state's interests, as any local corrupt power run by a national bourgeoisie and military state apparatus, are determined by their perceived geopolitical interests. Given how developments in Palestine can catalyze domestic politics, and given that Egypt does not want to have to deal with millions of refugees, it's not a given that they are going to get in the way of Israel bombing the crossings and blocking entry and exit of Gaza in general.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/bombardments-hit-area-gaza-sinai-border-crossing-gaza-officials-2023-10-10/
Looks like they don't want a flood of Palestinian refugees flowing into Egypt.
Whatever they can to make it worse or to benefit them.
Egypt needs permission from Israel to open the border. Israel owns a 100m buffet zone in the border since the war with Egypt.
That's a cop-out. Egypt could still open it from their side and leave it to Israel to police that 100 feet.
Egypt closed the border
For a pretty fucking good reason:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/10/11/israel-bombs-gazas-border-crossing-with-egypt
I didn't say why because I didn't know, I had seen something about that but haven't looked into it yet
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