U.N. agencies said on Tuesday the two main crossings into the southern Gaza Strip remained shut, virtually cutting off the Palestinian enclave from outside aid with few stocks positioned inside.
The global agency’s humanitarian office spokesperson Jens Laerke told journalists Israel had shut both the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings for aid and people as part of its military operation in Rafah, where around 1 million uprooted people are sheltering.
How many refugees can Egypt or Jordan realistically take? Are they at least willing to take the children?
These two nations right now are likely most capable of saving as many lives as possible, given their proximity. Is something like this even on the table?
Why doesn’t Israel take the refugees? They claim that they’re targeting only hamas after all and that they care a lot about innocents, so it shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Besides that, if Palestinians leave their homes then Israel will just do more illegal land grabs and settlements.
I don’t think any of us would accept Israel taking the children. Obviously nobody wants a refugee crisis, but Israel would be the cause of that refugee crisis, not the solution.
Totally off the table.
Firstly Egypt and Jordan don’t want to give Israel more justification to annex Gaza through the displacement of Palestinians.
Secondly, security “Cairo does not want to have a new security problem on its hands in this problematic region,” Fabiani said. Jordan has similar concerns considering they had a king assassinated by a Palestinian in Jerusalem
Clearly we don’t want more annexations, I just wish somebody in the region was capable of preserving the life of children here.
You are pointing out why the refugee crisis still exists after decades. No neighboring countries will accept the Palestinians, and many don’t want to leave.
Israel is clearly creating the problem, but other regional actors are using the Palestinians as pawns because they don’t like Israel (and don’t actually care about Palestinians dying). Larger countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran have the land and the money to give them a better life.
Iran especially doesn’t care about the Palestinians. They’re a different religion, as you can see in this picture: