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Fri 08 Dec 2023 7:50 am - Jerusalem Time
"Axios": Egypt warns of a "break" in relations with Israel in the event of the displacement of Palestinians to Sinai
The American website Axios, citing four American and Israeli officials, said on Thursday that Egypt has warned the United States and Israel of a “rupture” in relations with the latter if it pushes Palestinians to migrate to Sinai as a result of the war it is waging in the Gaza Strip.
Egypt has always taken a decisive stance on the issue of the displacement of Palestinians and expressed its categorical rejection of it, and considered the war a threat to its national security, in light of Israel’s denial of the existence of a plan to displace the people of the Gaza Strip, despite its bombing, which is pushing them towards the border.
According to what three Israeli officials said, Egyptian officials expressed their concern that the crisis on the border with the Gaza Strip would lead to thousands of displaced people crossing the border in order to try to find shelter in Sinai, while one of the Israeli officials spoke of their Egyptian counterparts informing them of the possibility of fleeing. "Fighters" from the Gaza Strip to Egypt.
While Israeli officials said that the Egyptian side informed Israel that such a scenario could create a crisis in relations between Egypt and Israel, an American official confirmed to the website that his country shares Egypt’s same concerns, noting that Egyptian officials warned of a rupture with Israel if such an event occurred. Scenario.
Fears of an Israeli plan to displace Gazans at the expense of Egypt
Private sources previously told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that there is an Israeli plan after the cessation of military operations, with which the Israelis are bargaining, which is to gradually push a large number of the population of the Gaza Strip, which may reach a million people, to Egypt, and then distribute them to the Egyptian governorates. .
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip resulted in the displacement of about 1.9 million people in Gaza, or approximately 85% of the population, while the Palestinian Ministry of Health said that the number of martyrs reached about 18,000.
In the first days of the war, which began on October 7, Israel was pushing Egypt to accept the transfer of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Sinai temporarily until the end of the war, according to what it said at the time. However, Egypt rejected the plan more than once, as did the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, which feared As well as the possibility of similar displacement occurring in the future from the West Bank.
Talk of the displacement of the people of the Gaza Strip has increased, with Israel expanding its war on the south of the Strip, which has focused in recent days on Khan Yunis, the largest city in the south, which contains hundreds of thousands of displaced people from the northern regions.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said, at the Aspen Security Forum in the US capital, Washington, on Thursday, that the displacement of Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt contradicts international law, stressing the need not to punish the Palestinians and force them to leave their land.
The Egyptian Foreign Minister, along with a number of Arab foreign ministers, is visiting Washington to meet with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to discuss the war on the Gaza Strip.
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed
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"Axios": Egypt warns of a "break" in relations with Israel in the event of the displacement of Palestinians to Sinai