No one really seems to have any idea. Israel doesn't want these people, and no one else seems to either. We can't force Israel (or anyone else) to take these people, and we can't force Israel to lift their blockage either. So they remain stuck in what's essentially the world's largest open-air prison (the entire Gaza strip is roughly the size of the Dublin metro area, but given that ~500 to 1,000 metres from the border can de-facto result in getting shot means it's even smaller than that).
That's really the core issue, and when the smoke clears from the current episode everyone will move on to other things, and we'll be having the same discussions in several years time when a new conflict inevitably emerged. Back in the 90s there was real hope and a path forward, but we seem further away than ever from that.
The entire problem seems intractable, without a clear "just do this" solution. I'm not seeing the will for a two-state solution among the population on either side, and Hamas is not like the IRA (or Arafat) who can be satisfied with a compromise, and neither are the extremist religious Jewish nutjobs for that matter.
None of that really engages with what I was talking about. I'm not really interested in this kind of pedantic wank over the exact meaning of "blockade" or playing some sort of partisan blame game. If you think Gaza is "just" some piece of land and Egypt can "just" end its problems then you're either profoundly misinformed or a bad-faith troll.
There are many more uninformed people on HN on any particular topic than you seem to imply. If you know better, please don't accuse but provide some links.
If that border was fully under control of Egypt, there would not be a trickle of aid in, but hundreds of trucks would be passing through. Egypt is bound by some agreements, too:
Specifically, the US annually gives $3.8 billion in aid to the Israeli military. In the UN, the US has also utilized their veto power to overrule 34 different resolutions related to Israel/Palestine peace since 1954. This really is the US' creation in so many ways yet so few Americans know anything about the topic.
