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EGYPT EVICTS RESIDENTS FROM ITS BORDER WITH GAZA - DEMOLITION TO

CREATE A BUFFER ZONE - TRAUMA FOR SUDDENLY DISPLACED WOMEN, FAMILIES

 

The UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Evictions and Displacement - http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Housing/Guidelines_en.pdf

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How does it feel to be given short notice to abandon your family home as it will be blown up for political, security reasons. For women and children, home is very much the center of their world, a refuge. To be evicted, even if with some compensation, it is not possible to take all the treasured, necessary and sentimental belongings. Indeed, the women in this region of Egypt's border with Gaza are "caught in the crossfire."

 

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*http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/egypt-sinai-peninsula-gaza-buffer-zone.html?emc=edit_ee_20141030&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=36377513&_r=0

*http://en.shafaqna.com/video-photo/video/item/35353-reuterscom/-egypt-creates-gaza-security-buffer.html - Website Link Includes Video.

*http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/10/egypt-sinai-gaza-buffer-zone-2014102918416226574.html

 

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