Talks over humanitarian corridor to Egypt condemned, comparisons drawn to 1948 Nakba

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said yesterday that the US is in talks with Israel and Egypt about providing a safe passage for civilians in Gaza. 

“We are focused on this question, there are consultations going on. But the details of that are something that are being discussed among the operational agencies and I don’t want to share too much of that publicly at this time,” he said. 

However, online, commentators and civilians in Palestine have said that the humanitarian corridor is not the solution, and that instead Israel should stop bombing Gaza.

Rex Brynen, a political science analyst said that the humanitarian corridor would be “deeply problematic,” adding that “Gaza largely consists of people whose families fled past Israeli military operations, only to see their properties seized, their villages deliberately destroyed, and who were barred from returning.”

Drawing comparisons to the Nakba of 1948, where Israel forced out 750,000 Palestinians, Brynen said “Indeed the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of 1948, is core to Palestinian identity and existential fears.”

He also mentioned that there is “limited infrastructure on the Egyptian side of the border.”