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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Al Jazeera Staff

Will Egypt accept Palestinians if Israel pushes them out of Gaza?

Palestinians with dual citizenship wait for permission to leave Gaza at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 2, 2023 [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi appears unlikely to absorb the 2.2 million Palestinians who could be displaced from the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war, experts have told Al Jazeera.

“My assessment is that it is a 95 percent non-starter,” said Nancy Okail, president and CEO of the Center for International Policy, a progressive nonprofit in Washington, DC.

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