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Egypt is generally a pretty cooperative partner with Israel and the US.
After all, Gaza has a border with Egypt that the Egyptian military also blockades, though of course no one likes to talk about that detail very much.
Yes I was very surprised and confused as to why Gaza would be stuck if they could just trade easily through Egypt, now it makes more sense, they're just fucked.
That's the thing. For as much nominal support the Arab world gives Palestine, there is absolutely nothing preventing Jordan and Egypt from welcoming in Palestinians.
Except that Palestinian militants conducted an attempted coup against Jordan in 1970, and Hamas routinely conducts terrorist attacks throughout the Sinai peninsula, so neither country actually wants to deal with them.
Are you suggesting that Jordan and Egypt don't care about Palestinians because they don't allow Israel to forcibly relocate millions of refugees to their countries? Beyond the fact it's a war crime, it doesn't really improve the situation for anyone but Israel.
The Gaza Strip literally was Egyptian territory. Hamas is a branch of the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood. The Apartheid state as it exists is largely the fault of the two major attempts by neighboring countries to exterminate Israel and failing.
Egypt should care about the humanitarian crisis as it played a major part in starting it.
I agree with the second part of your statement. Egypt could do more. But I'm not understanding what the first part has to do with forced displacement to Egypt. Is that somehow justified by the history?