When will Israel reopen Gaza’s Rafah crossing?

Gaza is often referred to arsenic the world’s largest open-air prison, trapped betwixt Israel’s blockade, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Rafah borderline station is the lone crossing betwixt Egypt and the Gaza Strip: a strategical gateway to the extracurricular world.

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In 2007, Israel imposed an air, land, and oversea blockade connected Gaza.

Human Rights Watch says the closure of the Rafah crossing has devastated Gaza’s economy, contributed to the fragmentation of the Palestinian people, and enabled Israel’s strategy of apartheid – and that was agelong earlier Israel’s devastating war.

And contempt the United States-brokered ceasefire, Israel has threatened to support the crossing unopen due to the fact that of delays successful returning the remains of its captives.

So, if and erstwhile the crossing reopens, however volition it run and who volition beryllium successful charge?

Presenter: Dareen Abughaida

Guests:

Mustafa Barghouti – Secretary-General astatine the Palestinian National Initiative

Tahani Mustafa – Visiting Fellow astatine the European Council connected Foreign Relations

Rob Geist Pinfold – Lecturer of International Security astatine King’s College London