Egypt threatens to suspend the Camp David Agreement if Israel attacks Rafah

Egypt has threatened to terminate the Camp David peace agreement signed with the Zionist regime of Israel if the soldiers of the hostile regime are sent to the Gaza border town of Rafah, which is flooded with people, saying that the fighting there could force the closure of the main way of distributing aid in the area.

Feb 14, 2024 - 09:04
Egypt threatens to suspend the Camp David Agreement if Israel attacks Rafah
Egypt threatens to suspend the Camp David Agreement if Israel attacks Rafah

  The statement threatening to suspend the agreement was issued on Sunday by two Egyptian officials after the prime minister of the Zionist regime, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that sending troops to Rafah was necessary to "win" the four-month-old war against the Palestinian resistance movement. Hamas. More than half of Gaza's two million and three hundred thousand residents have fled to Rafah to escape Israel's barbarism and brutal attacks elsewhere, and have flooded into large tent camps and settlements run by the United Nations near the border. Egypt fears the influx of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees into its land who may not be allowed to return to their homes. A ground offensive in Rafah could cut off one of the only routes to supply much-needed food and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip. The small area of ​​Rafah flooded with more than one million and three hundred thousand Palestinians The United Nations has said that Rafah, which is usually home to less than three hundred thousand people, has now received one million and four hundred thousand Palestinians who fled the attacks of the Zionist regime; and according to the UN, the area is "overcrowded". The head of the European Union's foreign policy, Josep Borrell, has written on the X website that: "Israeli attacks against Rafah will cause an indescribable humanitarian crisis and great tension with Egypt". The Zionist regime of Israel and Egypt had already fought five wars before signing the Camp David Agreement in 1978 under the administration of then US president Jimmy Carter. The agreement includes several provisions governing the deployment of forces on both sides of the border. Egyptian leaders fear that if the border agreement is broken, its troops will not be able to stop the wave of Palestinians who will be forced to leave Rafah and pour into the Sinai Desert.