80,000 to 100,000 Palestinians from Gaza cross into Egypt since October 7: Report
The Palestinian ambassador to Cairo, Diab Allouh, told the AFP news agency that the Palestinians had crossed the frontier without specifying how.
The Rafah border crossing is the sole entry and exit point to Gaza not directly under the control of Israeli forces.
Cairo has communicated that it does not want Palestinians to be displaced from Gaza into Egypt by Israel, comparing such a scenario to the 1948 Nakba.
It has also fortified a buffer zone with concrete walls on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing.
Israeli army waiting for green light to go into Rafah
The military has said it’s ready to go in whenever the cabinet sets a date.
It says it would first evacuate all the more than a million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah. About 150,000 have already left, it said, adding that when they will get the order, the rest will be evacuated – but that will take several weeks.
The suggestion in the last days from the military is that there is not going to be a major all-out invasion of Rafah in one go, but it will be more gradual perhaps in response to the enormous pressure from the US and other countries.
Ceasefire??? Anyone??? Countries gave up calling for a ceasefire or did the media give up reporting calls for a ceasefire? The UNSC certainly gave up :(
