Egypt reinforces border with Gaza

Egypt is constructing a wall and levelling land close to its border with the Gaza Strip in anticipation of an Israeli offensive focusing on the border city of Rafah.

Amid rising tensions between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Egypt has begun constructing a wall and levelling land alongside its border with the Gaza Strip in anticipation of an Israeli offensive focusing on the border city of Rafah.

Satellite tv for pc photographs analysed by the Related Press and a video from the Sinai Basis for Human Rights attest to this unprecedented initiative. The pictures reveal the erection of a concrete wall and obstacles alongside the Sheikh Zuweid-Rafah highway, some 3.5 kilometres west of the border with Gaza.

The Sinai Basis for Human Rights, based mostly in London, launched a video exhibiting a crane lifting concrete partitions alongside this highway, demonstrating the progress of the development work.

In response to the Basis, the purpose of this undertaking is to create a extremely safe space close to the border with the Gaza Strip, in preparation for the opportunity of a mass exodus of the Palestinian inhabitants within the occasion of an additional escalation of the battle.

These newest developments come as Israel continues to wage a protracted offensive towards the militant group Hamas, which has been energetic within the Gaza Strip for a number of months.

Though Egypt has not formally recognised this work, the initiative raises questions on its regional implications. Certainly, the preparations on the Egyptian facet of the border recommend that Cairo is making ready for a potential humanitarian disaster that would outcome from the intensification of the battle between Israel and Gaza.

Regardless of requests for remark, the Egyptian authorities has remained silent on these points, casting doubt on the motives and intentions behind this controversial work.