Reply #12: you "forgot this"....(and i wonder why?)

[pelsar]

The Palestinian controlled Rafah terminal could offer an alternative to Karni for some direct exports to third countries (i.e. without the need to go through Israel) and the Agreement on Movement and Access allows exports to leave Rafah. A number of Palestinian exporters have sought to move goods through the Rafah terminal. In practice, however, this has not been possible. Anecdotal evidence suggests that efforts have been made to prohibit empty Egyptian trucks from entering the Rafah terminal in order to take products out, while GoI would prohibit any Palestinian truck leaving Rafah in order to take products across into Egypt (even if traveling only to the Egyptian side of the border to transfer goods to an Egyptian truck) from reentering Gaza. As Rafah is currently the only border terminal controlled by the PA, however, it is worth exploring the development of new supply chains that would take Palestinian goods to third country markets by transiting through Egyptian ports.


gosh..imagine that......a whole new option exists that is ignored....damn facts....(most wont notice anyway....it ruins the evil israeli syndrom)

and Egypt long ago does what it wants in terms of israel, whatevers in its best interest..and keeping rafah closed to imports/exports is obviously what egypt prefers.....


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