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Book/Printed Material "Look for another homeland" : forced evictions in Egypt's Rafah. Forced evictions in Egypt's Rafah

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Title

  • "Look for another homeland" : forced evictions in Egypt's Rafah.

Other Title

  • Forced evictions in Egypt's Rafah

Summary

  • "In October 2014, the Egyptian government issued a decree to begin forcible evictions in the town of Rafah on the border with the Gaza Strip, five days after an insurgent group that later joined the Islamic State launched an unprecedented attack on a military position in North Sinai. Egypt justified the evictions as a way to defeat the insurgents by shutting down smuggling tunnels from Gaza, through which, they alleged, the insurgents received weapons and fighters. But a Human Rights Watch investigation based on interviews with evicted families and extensive satellite imagery shows that demolitions on the border began not in October 2014 but in July 2013, after the military removed former President Mohamed Morsy. Since then, the Egyptian military has forcibly evicted about 3,200 families, destroying as many buildings in the process, as well as hundreds of hectares of farmland. Families told Human Rights Watch the army warned them of the eviction only 48 hours or less in advance. The government's compensation has been inadequate, and the authorities gave evicted families no effective way to challenge their eviction or their compensation. The government provided no temporary housing. Since then, the government has provided little proof that the tunnels support the insurgency and has not explained why it could not have destroyed the tunnels using less destructive means. Human Rights Watch found that Egypt's actions violated international human rights law that protect civilians against forced evictions"--Page [4] of cover.

Names

  • Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.

Created / Published

  • [New York, NY] : Human Rights Watch, [2015]

Headings

  • -  Eviction--Egypt--Sinai
  • -  Eviction--Social aspects--Egypt--Sinai
  • -  Housing policy--Egypt--Sinai
  • -  Human rights--Egypt--Sinai

Notes

  • -  Cover title.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references.

Medium

  • 84 pages : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KRM883 .L66 2015

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016295437

OCLC Number

  • n923816057

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Chicago citation style:

Human Rights Watch , Issuing Body. "Look for another homeland": forced evictions in Egypt's Rafah. [New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, 2015] Web.. https://lccn.loc.gov/2016295437.

APA citation style:

Human Rights Watch, I. B. (2015) "Look for another homeland": forced evictions in Egypt's Rafah. [New York, NY: Human Rights Watch] [Web.] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2016295437.

MLA citation style:

Human Rights Watch , Issuing Body. "Look for another homeland": forced evictions in Egypt's Rafah. [New York, NY: Human Rights Watch, 2015] Web.. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <lccn.loc.gov/2016295437>.