Hundreds of families are being evicted from the Egyptian border with Gaza after the army announced it was doubling the size of the security buffer zone on Thursday.
The existing 500m buffer zone created last November will now expand in size, with authorities announcing they will destroy 1,220 homes.
Egypt's governor of North Sinai Abdel Fattah Harhoor told reporters that “the entire city of Rafah” would be included in the new security buffer zone. When asked by reporters whether “the city of Rafah that we know will cease to exist?”, Harhoor responded,
The existing 500m buffer zone created last November will now expand in size, with authorities announcing they will destroy 1,220 homes.
Egypt's governor of North Sinai Abdel Fattah Harhoor told reporters that “the entire city of Rafah” would be included in the new security buffer zone. When asked by reporters whether “the city of Rafah that we know will cease to exist?”, Harhoor responded,
“No, the new Rafah city will exist.”See more from the New York Times here.