Photos showing what Egypt did to the city of Rafah with hardly any criticism

Being an Arab country with a Muslim majority offers certain advantages even if your country is a dictatorship. This is the case in Egypt.

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The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian occupation between 1948 and 1956, and after a year of Israeli occupation, it returned to Egyptian hands from 1957 to 1967, when that Arab country lost the entire Sinai Peninsula due to the Six-Day War against Israel.

In 1979, Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty that established the current border between Egypt and Gaza, with only one crossing between the two territories: the so-called Rafah Crossing, so named because the border crossed that city: its northern side remained in Gaza and the southern side in Egypt.

In 2005, Israel ceded the Rafah crossing to Egypt and the Palestinian National Authority, under European Union supervision. The terrorist organization Hamas then began violating the terms of the treaty by moving large sums of money through the crossing.

In 2007, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip, and Egypt closed the Rafah crossing. The European Union observers withdrew. The Palestinian National Authority, controlled by Fatah (a Palestinian faction opposed to Hamas), agreed to the closure.

In January 2008, Hamas blew up part of the border wall with Egypt, and hundreds of thousands of Gazans crossed into Egypt illegally. In 2011, a new Egyptian government opened the Rafah crossing. In 2014, Islamist terrorists killed 30 Egyptian police officers in Sinai, and Egypt again closed the Rafah crossing, but this time the measures taken by the Arab country did not limit themselves to closing the crossing.

In January 2015, Egypt began bulldozing the Egyptian side of Rafah. The town's population was evacuated. Thousands of homes were demolished and thousands of hectares of farmland were closed. Egypt justified this measure in part to prevent the passage of contraband and weapons through the clandestine tunnels between Gaza and Sinai. Today, the Wikipedia entry for the Egyptian city of Gaza refers to it in the past tense: "it was a city in northern Sinai", it states. The images you can see in this article are satellite photos of the ruins of the Egyptian city of Rafah, taken from Google Maps. You can see more here:

Significantly, there was hardly any international criticism of Egypt for this. No mass demonstrations were seen in Western cities. No one demonized Egypt for this as they are now doing with Israel, the only democratic country in the Middle East, which on October 7, 2023, suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history (and the worst massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust) at the hands of Hamas terrorists. This is the advantage of being an Arab and Muslim country, even if it is a dictatorship, as is the case in Egypt: antisemites are silent when that country does things that many would consider scandalous if Israel did them.