Again, I'm a realist and, therefore, a big proponent of results count. Many Palestinians tried to make a run for it to Egypt but were blocked. Why? While the excuse of nullifying "
Palestinian demands for statehood" has some truth in it, the main reason is fear of Palestinian militants. Note, too,
no one is talking about sending peacekeepers into Gaza. Why?
I'm elderly, but can teach Americans resisting a Trumpian dictatorship all sorts of skills and tactics. A "child" is anyone under 18. Entire continent of Africa is rife with child soldiers. A 7-year-old girl can be instructed to carry a glass jar holding a grenade with the pin pulled, walking over to a group of Jews, either military or civilian, and dropping it to the ground. A child of the same age can be wired with a suicide vest and instructed to sneak under an Israeli tank then detonated remotely. Just saying a person is a "child" doesn't negate the damage they can do with adults who consider their little lives expendable to further their cause of "From the River to the Sea".
As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack, many ask why neighboring Egypt or other Arab countries don’t take them in.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi made his toughest remarks yet on Wednesday, saying the current war was not just aimed at fighting Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, “but also an attempt to push the civilian inhabitants to ... migrate to Egypt.” He warned this could wreck peace in the region.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II gave a similar message a day earlier, saying, “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt.”
Their refusal is rooted in fear that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of Palestinians into their countries and nullify Palestinian demands for statehood. El-Sissi also said a mass exodus would risk bringing militants into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, from where they might launch attacks on Israel, endangering the two countries’ 40-year-old peace treaty.
The population density of Gaza rivals that of America’s largest cities, with more than 2 million people living on a roughly 140-square-mile strip of land. About 40% of Gaza’s population is 14 years old or younger and the territory’s median age was just 18 in 2020, making Gaza home to one of the world’s 20 youngest populations, based on figures from the CIA’s World Factbook.