2023-10-15 20:11:50
Palestinians wait Saturday in Rafah, on the border with Egypt, to be able to leave the Gaza Strip. IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/REUTERS
DECRYPTION – The Arab world is worried that Israel is permanently moving Gazans to Egypt.
The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fear the transfer trap that Israel could set for them, eight days after the Hamas terrorist attack. For more than forty-eight hours, several hundred thousand residents of Gaza City, crammed into trucks, carts and overloaded cars, have taken the dangerous route towards the south of this narrow strip of land, to escape the flood of fire that has fallen on them for a week since Israel began an implacable siege. But many others refuse to give in to Israeli warnings to flee the north of the enclave, so as to be spared the IDF ground operation.
“Whatever happens, we will not leave, they are hitting our houses, but we will not be displaced again”swears Fawziah, a 90-year-old Gazan, sitting at home with her grandchildren, quoted by the Reuters correspondent on site.
At 90, Fawziah remembers her first exodus, in 1948, when she had to leave…
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