Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.
Doesn’t care lol. They only opened the border for aid because the USA gave them a guarantee that Israel will allow it and they wouldn’t have to actually use their own military to defend their own border from the IDF.
Egypt has treaties in place, and is following those treaties.
Egypt doesn’t support Hamas, at all. Doesn’t want religious political parties in Egypt.
Israel doesn’t want aid coming into gaza. But appears happy for Gazans to leave Gaza empty.
Egypt doesn’t want to absorb all the Gazan people into Egypt. But is happy to let aid cross into Gaza.
If the border was truly independent we would see all the aid trucks crossing, but Israel does control it via remote monitoring, bombing, and treaties. Israel has the superior military, so Egypt doesn’t want to defy treaties.
Egypt doesn’t support Hamas, at all. Doesn’t want religious political parties in Egypt.
Even more strongly, the Muslim Brotherhood is like enemy of the state #1 in Egypt, and Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot.
Sisi isn’t as hell-bent secular as Nasser, licensing and constructing plenty of churches and mosques and preaching religious tolerance, Al Nour isn’t outlawed (probably because irrelevant, anyway), but they’re cracking down hard on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Trucks carrying aid have been driving through the Egyptian border gate at Rafah before heading more than 40km (25 miles) to the Egyptian-Israeli crossing of Al-Awja/Nitzana, south of Egypt’s short border with Gaza, for inspection, as agreed in negotiations with Israel. Trucks return to Egypt empty, with the aid reloaded onto separate trucks for delivery into Gaza.
The IDF is 100% in control of Gaza, everything that goes in or our is under IDF control. That is why people have called Gaza an open air Prison.
So how does that work when Egypt shares a border with Gaza?
Doesn’t care lol. They only opened the border for aid because the USA gave them a guarantee that Israel will allow it and they wouldn’t have to actually use their own military to defend their own border from the IDF.
https://hackertalks.com/comment/1544238
So Egypt willingly supports Israel but only Israel gets crtitcized for it?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67133675
Egypt has treaties in place, and is following those treaties.
Egypt doesn’t support Hamas, at all. Doesn’t want religious political parties in Egypt.
Israel doesn’t want aid coming into gaza. But appears happy for Gazans to leave Gaza empty.
Egypt doesn’t want to absorb all the Gazan people into Egypt. But is happy to let aid cross into Gaza.
If the border was truly independent we would see all the aid trucks crossing, but Israel does control it via remote monitoring, bombing, and treaties. Israel has the superior military, so Egypt doesn’t want to defy treaties.
Even more strongly, the Muslim Brotherhood is like enemy of the state #1 in Egypt, and Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot.
Sisi isn’t as hell-bent secular as Nasser, licensing and constructing plenty of churches and mosques and preaching religious tolerance, Al Nour isn’t outlawed (probably because irrelevant, anyway), but they’re cracking down hard on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Gaza also shares a border with Egypt. Egypt is not under IDF control.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/why-gazas-rafah-border-crossing-matters-why-egypt-is-keeping-it-shut-2023-10-17/
Trucks carrying aid have been driving through the Egyptian border gate at Rafah before heading more than 40km (25 miles) to the Egyptian-Israeli crossing of Al-Awja/Nitzana, south of Egypt’s short border with Gaza, for inspection, as agreed in negotiations with Israel. Trucks return to Egypt empty, with the aid reloaded onto separate trucks for delivery into Gaza.
Egypt has agreements with Israel giving them right of refusal for any border crossings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing
That being said, Egypt is no friend of Hamas, but sending UN aid in doesn’t cost egypt anything.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told the BBC’s Newshour programme that from Egypt’s perspective, “the Rafah crossing on our side is officially open”
IDF doesn’t control it, Egypt just doesn’t give a flying fuck about Hamas. So they don’t mind Israel looking through the tracks.