The Gaza ministry of the interior
released statistics on how many people have crossed between Gaza and Egypt this year, and compared it to previous years.
So far this year the Rafah crossing has only been open for 19 days.
This chart based on the data shows how restrictive Egypt has been year over year.
In contrast, Israel has allowed about 140,000 crossings this year at Erez, based on
Gisha's chart of the first ten months of the year.
If you look at goods that were imported from Egypt versus Israel, it would look even worse for Egypt.
Yet we are still not seeing any articles about Egypt's "siege" of Gaza.
Egypt says that these closures are necessary for security reasons. But Israel has far more fear of violence from Gaza and yet it allows far more access to and from an enemy territory.
This is how Arabs treat their Palestinian brethren. But that doesn't make the news.
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