Despite being small, this city is very important to Israel’s economy. It has a significant industrial area, devoted to construction products (concrete, glazing, etc), chemicals and pharmaceuticals, metals, communications, information technology, and electronics. But also diamond cutting and the production of textiles, ceramics, and plastics. It is also important for the agriculture and foodtech of the region, along with tourism.

The economic and financial impact of shutting down this versatile city, and its surrounding area, cannot be underestimated, as it impacts multiple sectors at once, especially when coupled with reduced imports due to the Red Sea blockade.

Therefore, the strategic way the resistance plans for where to hit affects the occupation’s whole economy in ways that will take time and money to build back up.

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What really happened at 11:30 on May 27, 2024, in Rafah between Egyptian soldiers and Israelis?

1. On June 3, 2023, a 22-year-old Egyptian soldier (policeman) Mohamed Salah infiltrated the Negev and clashed with IDF soldiers, resulting in the death of three of them and his own death.

2. Egyptian soldiers are the sons of the common Egyptian people. They don't have access to the amenities enjoyed by their generals and higher ranks. They suffer like the rest of their people.

3. They feel the pain of their people and the pain of their Palestinian brothers. They get humiliated daily, with some assigned to stand at a lemonade stand selling juice, while others are borrowed for work in their captains' home renovations or to drive their daughters.

4. Video #1 — In a video circulated during the first weeks of the war on Gaza, an Egyptian soldier said: "You taught us to fight, you taught us about weapons. In training, you made us run in the deserts. In extreme heat, keep your weapons and open the borders for us. We know how to handle ourselves. Me and many others my age will burn everything, Wallah."

5. This is the second incident of its kind. The first one occurred on January 15, 2024.

Video #2 — A group calling itself "Al-Faruq Brigades - Sinai" released its first statement claiming the "incident."

Issues with the mysterious group:
- They mentioned the war on Gaza being over 80 days, while it was already over 100 days, indicating the video was recorded at least 20 days prior to the incident.
- They chose a photo of Mohamed Salah, a fellow fallen soldier.
- Sinai borders are heavily guarded.
- This is not an Israeli false flag to have an excuse for military presence on the Philadelphi corridor, considering it happened 42 KM away from Gaza borders.
- The group is Egyptian intelligence fiction to justify what happened. Based on the prerecorded footage, it implies the Egyptian regime's intelligence thought that something like this would happen, and they were prepared to pin it on a fictional group of their creation.

Today's incident happened in Rafah. Pinning it on a group would undermine the Egyptian regime, and no one would believe it since most of the Egyptian army personnel are concentrated on the Rafah crossing and surrounding borders.

So they had to downplay it.

So what really happened?

In both cases, it was an individual decision taken by the sons of the common Egyptian man who feel for their brothers and couldn’t bear to see them massacred in front of their eyes without taking action.

There were casualties among the Israelis and the sons of the common Egyptian man (soldiers), and you will never hear the accurate number of casualties from either regime.

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🔺After the incident at the Rafi'ah checkpoint, where an Egyptian army soldier was killed in a shootout with the IDF, Israel and Egypt have been maintaining intensive contacts, trying to prevent a crisis in bilateral relations. This was reported by Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth on the evening of Monday, May 27.

"The parties agree that this story should quietly die down," an Egyptian source told Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth. Another source in Cairo reported that military correspondents of Egyptian media were instructed to "stay away from the incident."

He added that in Israel, reports about the incident on the border are also subject to strict censorship "so as not to provoke the other side's anger."

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The video zionists are circulating of the ‘Hamas jeep explosion’ is FAKE. The video starts BEFORE the audio does. The audio has been added to the video and tampered with.

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🔻An attempt to free Israeli prisoners in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, failed.

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Metulla Settlement Council Chairman David Azoulay:

“I start my day almost every morning by making a phone call to the displaced residents to inform them of the destruction of their homes.”

Hello my enemies…

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🔺An Israeli soldier sets fire to a Palestinian house in Gaza Strip to mark the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer, commemorating Rabbi Shimon and Israeli rabbis.

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Families in Rafah continue to relocate in an attempt to save their lives as Israel continues to bombard the heavily populated city, which has forced families from all over Gaza to relocate.

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Hebrew media:

An urgent meeting of the military cabinet now regarding the security incident inside Rafah

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Last night a mother lost her 6 children – they were turned into ashes

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🔻 Hebrew sources:

2 huge explosions in Ashkelon

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Israeli Army Radio:

A Hezbollah drone exploded in the Western Galilee this evening and air defenses were unable to intercept it.

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