And even before then, Egypt's peace with Israel (and Egypt's subsequent ~$1B/yr in defense aid from the US) depends on playing nice with Israel in several respects, including deferring to Israeli policy on the Gaza border.

There's also the fact that Israel has been bombing aid trucks and killing aid workers and burying them alive.

Before May 2024, Egypt was the primary route for aid to get it, but getting from Southern Gaza to northern Gaza was incredibly dangerous.

according to UN data egypt was primary route only for a few months following october 7th, as all of Israeli border was an active war zone:

https://www.ochaopt.org/data/crossings

Not that it's ever prevented smuggling. Curious where all of hamas weapons are coming from.

There has been smuggling of course, but (perhaps unintentionally) Israel gives them most of what they use.

> But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. Hamas is also arming its fighters with weapons stolen from Israeli military bases.

> “Unexploded ordnance is a main source of explosives for Hamas,” said Michael Cardash, the former deputy head of the Israeli National Police Bomb Disposal Division and an Israeli police consultant. “They are cutting open bombs from Israel, artillery bombs from Israel, and a lot of them are being used, of course, and repurposed for their explosives and rockets.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-h...

Also repurposed infrastructure like water pipes and lamposts. But they had plenty of weapons and explosives pre war, before egypt sealed their border to gaza.

The explosives are the part that obviously should be given the main focus.

And quite a bit of what's being talked about wrt to re-manufacturing Israeli unexploded ordance was stockpiled prior to Oct 7th. Israel did not start bombing Gaza only after Oct 7th (and in fact had been bombing Gaza as late as Sept 23, 2023).

> Not that it's ever prevented smuggling. Curious where all of hamas weapons are coming from.

Gaza is on the ocean: they could have been brought in via boat.

To be fair, Israel has had a complete naval blockade of Gaza for some 20 years, and is probably the more effective part of their blockade.

Well documented that Hamas has people dig up pipes to make rocket/mortar systems.

Otherwise the answer is largely tunnels.

It is the Egyptian side that is refusing to let aid go through Rafah since Israel took it, not the Israeli side.

https://www.reuters.com/world/egypt-refuses-coordinate-with-...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-refusing-to-coordinate-w...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/23/egyptian-blockade-of...

These articles are from over a year ago and they all say that Israel took control of the Rafah border.

"On May 7, Israeli forces seized the main border crossing at Rafah, closing a vital route for aid into the besieged enclave."

Understandably, the Egyptian government does not want to coordinate with the Israeli government after seeing how the Israeli-organized aid sites have been going.

It is both.

That being said Egypt being complicit doesn't make any of this better.

Are you implying that aid would otherwise be allowed by israel via Rafah?

Why did Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Europe, Canada etc. take Syrians during the war in Syria but Egypt (and everyone else) refuses to allow civilian Gazans to escape to safety?

My country hosted the PLO in the 80s and was almost outcast by the rest of the Arab world.

Harboring them was seen by some people as an indirect support to Israeli efforts to push Palestinians out and take over their land.

To this day, any talk about allowing Palestinians to move en masse out of their territory, even as refugees, is at best a very controversial move.

> Why did Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Europe, Canada etc. take Syrians during the war in Syria but Egypt (and everyone else) refuses to allow civilian Gazans to escape to safety?

Spitballing here, but it might be continued unease about Arafat. He weaponised the Palestinian population in Lebanon [1] and Jordan [2] in ways that would make it politically untenable for them to accept Palestinian refugees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_insurgency_in_Sout...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September

Escape to safety? Do you mean, have their land stolen?

It's funny how when Israel stops aid it's a genocide and when Egypt does it it's Israels fault or.. you know.. somehow the jews...

Distinguish between Israelis and Jews. Otherwise you will tarnish both. And Jews in the US are not as supportive of the genocide as Israelis are.

Reread my comment. I was being sarcastic against anti-semites.

"What interest they have to come to such place"

Egypt has made it fairly clear they want nothing to do with Gaza and Palenstine. I don't believe they would send aid or allow crossings anyway.