CNN —Egypt is facing mounting pressure to act as neighboring Gaza gets pummeled by Israeli airstrikes after last weekend’s brutal assault on Israel by Hamas.
That has left the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt as the only viable outlet to get people out of the enclave and supplies into it.
But Egypt is uneasy about the prospect of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees crossing into its territory.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians took refuge in Gaza, which fell under Egyptian control after the war.
Israel captured the territory from Egypt in the 1967 war and began settling Jews there, but it withdrew its troops and settlements in 2005.
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