More than half of Gaza’s population is squeezed into miserable tent cities in Rafah, a small city along Egypt’s border. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has threatened to overrun the area. Rather than opening its border to give Palestinians a refuge from the onslaught, Egypt has reinforced its frontier with Gaza. It has also warned Israel that any move that would send Gazans spilling into its territory could jeopardize the decades-old Israel-Egypt peace treaty, an anchor of Middle East stability since 1979.
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