Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his military to make plans for evacuating over a million Palestinian refugees crowded into Rafah, the last remaining refuge for displaced residents of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
Israeli troops are preparing to launch the last massive ground offensive against Hamas fighters and the Palestinian population in the area.
The UN has estimated that around 1.4 million displaced Gazans have taken refuge in Rafah, located on the besieged enclave’s border with Egypt, since the Israel-Hamas war began in October.
The city, which normally has a population of some 280,000, has become the last so-called safe zone for civilians as the IDF levels much of Gaza in its hunt for Hamas fighters.
The evacuation directive comes as the USA and other allies step up pressure on West Jerusalem to reduce civilian casualties.
The US State Department warned on Thursday that an Israeli military operation in Rafah without serious planning for protection of civilians would be disastrous.
US President Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday night that the IDF’s operations in Gaza had been over the top, marking his most pointed criticism of Israeli war tactics since the conflict began.
Biden’s administration has refused so far to press for a ceasefire in Gaza and has criticized allegations that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.
About 28,000 people have been killed in the territory since the war began, according to local health authorities. The UN has reported that 85% of the population has been displaced from their homes, and 570,000 Gazans are starving.
The war started when Hamas fighters launched surprise attacks against Israeli villages, killing more than 1,100 people and taking hundreds of hostages back to Gaza.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Attacking starving and completely surrounded civilians is WAR CRIME!
This is what happens when people lose values & morals. The devil’s children get full control the money supply and global policy. Now the world has to watch them butcher babies in horror. #StopIsrael 🚫🇮🇱
U.S.A. + NATO vassals cleansing ethnic Christian and Arab Muslim gentiles in Gaza to accomplish the final solution . ” The final solution” to fulfill the Old Testament contract that all the land between the Nile and Euphartes rivers is to be Hebrews only , no others allowed. GENTILES must be eliminated by violence or genocide all the way to Mecca and Arabian Sea.
28000 murders to his name and Netanyahu wants more. Sickening. Talk about the anti-Christ! Why aren’t the Arabs and Iran helping to prevent this massacre of innocent Palestinians?
I wish Russia wasn’t so pro is real. Someone needs to step in and make this right . Maybe when the gas that’s under Gaza is tapped and sold to Europe we will see who the benefactors are . The west is criminal.
The Israelis are dragging humanity into the gutter.
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