Egypt is building a closed and secure camp in the Sinai to accommodate Palestinians from Gaza fleeing the war in the event of an Israeli offensive on Rafah. The Wall Street Journal claims, citing Egyptian officials and security experts, that “a closed 13 km² enclosure” is being built on the border with the Palestinian territory.
Egypt denies any construction of this type but the Egyptian NGO stressed that two local business leaders had confirmed to it that they had obtained contracts to build a closed area “surrounded by walls of seven meters high”