Jewish Bubba: The Roads From Southern Gaza to Egypt : Rafah Crossing and The Philadelphia Corridor

Nadene Goldfoot

Rafah Border Crossing in 2012

On Nov 2023, (Reuters) - People hoping to leave the Gaza Strip converged on the Rafah crossing to Egypt on Thursday, with those whose names were on a list vetted by Israel gradually passing through while others held up their foreign passports in vain.

The Rafah Border Crossing (Arabic: معبر رفح, or Rafah Crossing Point is the sole crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the Gaza–Egypt border. The crossing was open for limited evacuations for a second day under a Qatar-brokered deal between Israel, Egypt, Hamas and the United States, aimed

at letting some foreign passport holders and their

dependents, and some wounded Gazans, out of the

besieged enclave.

Scores of foreign passport holders trapped in Gaza started leaving the war-torn Palestinian territory on Nov. 1 when the Rafah crossing to Egypt was opened up for the first time since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

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On the other side of the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt ambulances

waited to evacuate critically injured people from Gaza.

Fatima Shbair/AP

The Philadelphi Route is located along the Egypt-Gaza border, situated along the entirety of the border between Gaza Strip and Egypt.

One purpose of the Philadelphi Route was to prevent the movement of illegal materials (including weapons and ammunition) and people between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Palestinians, in cooperation with some Egyptians, have built smuggling tunnels under the Philadelphi Route to move these into the Gaza Strip.

The Philadelphi Corridor is a 14-km long (8.6 miles) and 100-meter (109 yards) wide area between Gaza and Egypt.

IDF soldiers uncover a tunnel near the Philadelphi Route shortly before the disengagement

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (2001-2006) General b: 1928 was Ariel (Arik) Scheinerman. Ariel was born in Kfar Malal, an agricultural moshav, then in Mandatory Palestine, to Shmuel Scheinerman (1896–1956) of Brest-Litovsk and Vera (née Schneirov) Scheinerman (1900–1988) of Mogilev.

His parents met while at university in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia), where Sharon's father was studying agronomy and his mother was studying medicine. They immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1922 in the wake of the Russian Communist government's growing persecution of Jews in the region.

The Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., United States, on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed by Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, and witnessed by Jimmy Carter, President of the United States.

President George W. Bush, center, discusses the Israeli–Palestinian peace process with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, left, and Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas in Aqaba, Jordan, 4 June 2003.

A second Intifada (2000) from Palestinian forces, which ended in 2005, led to the Palestinian people's autonomous control of the West Bank and Gaza. In 2005, Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip, uprooting its settlements in the region.

The late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, had driven the Jewish residents and farmers from Gaza in the vain hope that the Palestinians would live in peace next to Israel. Of course, they did not and anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knew that no Muslim entity would ever make peace with the Jewish state.

Under U.S. pressure, especially from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ariel Sharon signed an agreement in September 2005, called "Agreed Arrangements," that withdrew Israeli forces from the Philadelphi Corridor, a 14-km long (8.6 miles) and 100-meter (109 yards) wide area between Gaza and Egypt. This was 18 years ago.

This is what the Gazans will be traveling on in getting out of Gaza to freedom. It is under this corridor that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist entities have dug hundreds of tunnels through which they smuggle their weapons into Gaza. The retreat from the Philadelphi Corridor at the urgings of Condoleezza Rice was one of many disastrous concessions and risks taken by Israeli leaders in their naïve search for peace with the Muslim and Arab world.

The first Egyptian brokered ceasefire on July 14th, 2014, was accepted by Israel but immediately broken by Hamas, which launched salvos of missiles against Israeli towns and villages. Rumors abound that now Hamas seeks a 10 year hudna – another bogus ceasefire – complete with outrageous demands and conditions.

Egypt Presents Proposal to Israel and Hamas for a Cease- ...

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Jul 14, 2014 — July 14, 2014. JERUSALEM — Israel and its main militant Gaza adversary weighed an Egyptian cease-fire.

July 2014, the uneasy calm between HAMAS and Israel broke down completely after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank in June—deaths ascribed by Israel to HAMAS—and a Palestinian was killed by Israeli settlers in revenge. Retaliatory rocket attacks by HAMAS’s military wing and other Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip escalated into the longest and most lethal conflict with Israel since 2009.

Netanyahu is not for any cease fires. The enemy only uses it to refill their larders of weaponry. They've never considered their own civilians' welfare, it isn't to benefit them. The latest Netanyahu is doing is giving them 4 hours quiet for travel to the border of Egypt.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN there's "no reason" patients can't be evacuated from Al-Shifa. Israel opened an evacuation corridor there Sunday, but the International Committee of the Red Cross said no one left through it. The hospital director says people are afraid to step outside.

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