Nearly half of the homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged by the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, the United Nations reported. According to a recently released report from the U.N. …
Egypt knows any Palestinian refugee that leaves Palestine will never be allowed to return home. Letting Gazans into Sinai would be to permanently accepting them, and also likely result in Israel invading Egypt to create a “safe zone”, possibly dragging Egypt into the war. The Gazans would be politically destabilizing, due to the strain that admitted potentially over a million refugees with nothing would cause on the already struggling domestic economy.
What if the Palestinian refugee doesn’t want to return home? Why isn’t that up to them? Because Egypt doesn’t want them. They would be fine if they all left right now.
Egypt knows any Palestinian refugee that leaves Palestine will never be allowed to return home. Letting Gazans into Sinai would be to permanently accepting them, and also likely result in Israel invading Egypt to create a “safe zone”, possibly dragging Egypt into the war. The Gazans would be politically destabilizing, due to the strain that admitted potentially over a million refugees with nothing would cause on the already struggling domestic economy.
What if the Palestinian refugee doesn’t want to return home? Why isn’t that up to them? Because Egypt doesn’t want them. They would be fine if they all left right now.
Well the Palestinians aren’t being given a choice regardless, so your hypothetical is a bit moot.