Will Gazans Be Forced Into Egypt’s Sinai?

Emotions are high over Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. Amid widespread horror at the mass civilian death and destruction of critical infrastructure and homes, there are fears that the people of Gaza are slowly being pushed out of their homeland - after Tel Aviv ordered the inhabitants of the northern part of the Strip to relocate to the southern part, which is closer to Egypt, as a ‘safety measure.’ Some of the recent remarks from top Israeli officials are fanning these suspicions - suggesting Gazans be ‘temporarily’ relocated to tent refugee camps in the Sinai desert. In fact, Israel’s Netanyahu once proposed to Egypt’s Mubarak that Palestinians be moved out of Gaza and into the Sinai Peninsula; African Stream’s Ahmed Ghoneim asks what’s behind the mass relocation order in his latest edition of Africa in 90 Seconds.