'Look for another homeland' – Forced evictions in Egypt’s Rafah (September 2015)

22nd September 2015

'Look for another homeland' – Forced evictions in Egypt’s Rafah (September 2015)

The 84-page Human Rights Watch report, “Look for Another Homeland,” documents the government’s failure to provide adequately for residents during and after the evictions in North Sinai. Since July 2013, ostensibly to eliminate the threat of smuggling tunnels, the military has arbitrarily razed thousands of homes in a once-populated buffer zone on the border with the Gaza Strip, destroying entire neighbourhoods and hundreds of hectares of farmland.