Palestinians are surging at the Rafah border, the only way out of Gaza. But the crossing into Egypt remains closed despite hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough.
Before dawn on Monday, the US embassy in Jerusalem sent an email to Americans trapped in Gaza, suggesting they head for the border with Egypt and offering the prospect of escape.has so far yielded little but confusion, even at the embassy. Its email about the border opening did not cite talks with Egypt or Israel – it was based on news reports.The lack of clarity was clear on the ground.
The airstrikes have killed 2750 people, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, and more than half a million Gazans have heeded Israeli warnings of an imminent invasion and fled their homes for the enclave’s south. “Money has no value,” Waheed said in a telephone interview. “There will be a big struggle over water and food and even medicines in two days.”Mohamed Sharif, 42, who fled Gaza City for a friend’s house in the south, spent five hours looking for fuel to pump water into the tanks at his friend’s house. He did not find any.Though Israel is pushing what it calls a “complete siege” of Gaza since the Hamas attack, it has, along with Egypt, kept the enclave largely cut off since 2007.
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