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Mat Nashed

How Israel pushed dotted ‘red lines’ to have its way in Rafah

Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents destroyed by Israel's bombardment near an UNRWA facility west of Rafah city, on May 28, 2024 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Israeli tanks have rolled into Rafah’s city centre and its army announced that it now controls the entire Philadelphi Corridor, the strip of land that runs along Egypt’s border with Gaza’s Rafah Governorate.

This violates the conditions of its treaty with Egypt that stipulate the strip, also known as the Salah al-Din Axis, is a buffer zone that Egypt oversees from its side of the border.

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