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##Gaza: #Egypt: Why won't President al-Sisi open the Rafeh gates? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

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##Gaza: #Egypt: Why won't President al-Sisi open the Rafeh gates? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-were-reaching-deeper-than-hamas-ever-imagined-no-truce-before-hostages-freed/

1905 Egypt

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Gaza, Fog of War, at the same time we can talk about the wider region.

0:46.0

Egypt in particular, what we've learned these last days is that Egypt is refusing to open the gates of the

0:51.8

Rafa crossing to permit the Palestinians who have

0:55.9

evacuated from Gaza city in the north of the strip where the fighting is very intense.

1:02.1

Vogue of war can't summarize it whatsoever.

1:05.8

House by house, tunnel by tunnel.

1:08.9

Egypt has refused to open the gates to permit the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands refuge in the Al-Sisi made a speech a few weeks ago talking about how the men of families should eat less.

1:26.0

We know for some time they've had difficulty maintaining their culture because of the Nile River not providing enough water for a population

1:36.4

that's grown ungainly in Cairo.

1:39.8

How weak is Al-CisiC-C-C? Is he vulnerable to fall?

1:45.0

Well, I think, I think President C.C. is in a reasonably strong position because personally he's quite's quite popular he's also very strong and

1:55.0

there's also no visible alternative as well the military is happy with him and

2:01.0

that's the critical point because if the military backs him

2:04.4

then they will not allow a street protests to remove him. The street protests which

2:11.5

removed the previous government of Mohammed Morsi, who was Muslim Brotherhood,

2:17.1

went out of control because Morsi himself undertook policies which actually exacerbated the food shortage problem and C.C. is not.

2:28.0

But the gates of Rafa crossing remain shut to those refugees.

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