You have to laugh. If you don't laugh, you might just throw your remote through the TV screen. The news anchors are all smiling today, optimizing their delivery for maximum engagement. "The **Rafah border crossing** is open!" they say. "Progress!" they shout. They show you pictures of a gate in the desert. They talk about peace and cooperation regarding **Palestinians returning to Gaza**. They act like the world just fixed a flat tire and we are all back on the road.

But here is the truth. Here is the key metric they whisper while shouting everything else: Twelve.

Twelve people. That is it. That is the grand total conversion rate.

After nearly two years of waiting, the critical **Egypt-Gaza border** finally creaked open. Two years. That is more than seven hundred days. Think about that user experience. Think about standing in line for seven hundred days. Your feet hurt yet? Your soul tired yet?

Thousands of **Palestinians stranded in Egypt** want to go home. They are stuck on the wrong side of a fence. They have been waiting for the guys in suits to sign a piece of paper. And finally, the day comes. The big day. The gates open. And twelve people walk through.

Twelve. That is not a functional **border crossing**. That is a dinner party. That is a slow day at the DMV. A dozen eggs. That is the best the "leaders" of the world could do?

It is an insult. It is a slap in the face to every single person standing in the dust with a suitcase. Imagine being person number thirteen. You stood there. You waited. You had your papers. You probably packed your bag weeks ago. You get to the front, and the guard looks at you and says, "Sorry, pal. We hit our limit on **Gaza entry**. Come back in another two years."

It is sick. And it is exactly how the world works.

This isn't just about a line in the sand. This is about the people in charge. It doesn't matter what flag they wave. It doesn't matter if they are on the Left or the Right. They are all the same. They love the show. They love the photo op. They want the high-ranking headline that says "Border Reopens" because it makes them look like heroes. It makes them look like they are solving the **humanitarian crisis**.

But they aren't solving anything. They are managing the misery. They are turning a faucet just enough to let a few drops out, so the pipe doesn't burst. That is all this is. It is crowd control.

Think about the incompetence required to only process twelve people in a day. We have computers in our pockets that can talk to satellites in space. We can order a pizza and track the driver to our doorstep. But we can't figure out how to let humans walk across a line on the ground?

Of course they can. They just don't want to. That is the ugly truth nobody says on the evening news. If they wanted to let people through, they would. They don't want to. They want to play games. They want to use these people as poker chips. "I'll raise you five families for a trade deal." It is disgusting.

The expectations were high. Everyone thought this was the end of the wait. They thought families would be reunited. They thought the nightmare was over. But hope is a dangerous thing when you are dealing with bureaucrats. Hope is what they use to keep you quiet. They dangle it in front of you.

So here we are. The dust settles in the desert. The twelve lucky winners **return to Gaza** to a place that has its own problems. The thousands left behind sit on their suitcases and stare at a closed gate. And the politicians pat each other on the back for a job well done.

It is all a scam. The border isn't open. It is just slightly less closed. And in a world run by morons and grifters, I guess that is what they call a victory.

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### References & Fact-Check * **Original Event**: On February 3, 2026, the Rafah crossing allowed a limited number of individuals to cross, marking the first time in nearly two years that **Palestinians returned to Gaza** via this route. * **Source Authority**: [Palestinians Return to Gaza for First Time in Nearly Two Years (The New York Times)](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/world/middleeast/palestinians-gaza-return.html) * **Context**: While the reopening was hailed as progress, the extremely low volume of processing (cited as twelve individuals in reports) highlights the ongoing logistical and political bottlenecks at the **Egypt-Gaza border**.