The situation around the border town of Rafah is coming to a head: Israel is giving Hamas an ultimatum, Egypt is tightening its security precautions. What consequences an escalation in Rafah would have.
By Gregor Scheu
The small strip of land that separates Egypt from Gaza is fourteen kilometers long. Meter-high walls, barbed wire and soldiers separate more than a million desperate people from a life without war. And a large border crossing with locked gates. People driven from their homes in northern and central Gaza by Israeli army bombs and attacks are gathering in the southern Palestinian border town of Rafah. Crammed into the south of the country, the situation of the refugee civilian population is catastrophic, and not just from a humanitarian perspective. In Rafah there is not enough drinking water, no medicine and, above all, no prospects. Egypt refuses to open the border in Rafah.
Source: Stern
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