Israel’s defense minister has signaled that ground forces will advance toward the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which has become a refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians pushed from their homes by nearly 13 weeks of war.
Rafah, which has also been a gateway for humanitarian aid, is a sprawl of tents and makeshift shelters crammed against the border with Egypt. About half of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents have piled into and around the city, where about 200,000 people lived before the war, the United Nations said on Friday.
The city is one of the last in southern Gaza that Israeli ground forces, which have been fighting house-to-house battles in nearby Khan Younis, have not yet reached.
Remember when the government and apologist propaganda was that it couldn’t be war crimes because they warned civilians to relocate from the fighting in the northern parts to the south (which is in itself the war crime of forced mass relocation. Think Trail of Tears.)?
Palestinian farmers remember.
And designated safe corridors and then bombed the corridors.
Oh! And cut off electricity and the internet, yet somehow everyone was magically supposed to know where they were going to attack and where was “safe” despite having no way to actually hear that information.
The terms of what’s considered “war crimes” have changed… pray that they don’t change any further!
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…more like roll over and crush: “Israeli forces bulldoze Palestinian tents, crushing people alive” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5OcE8JqkZM
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Well yeah. Israel has some genociding to do and they can’t very well do that if they let civilians live, right?
Wake up, honey, new genocide phase just dropped.
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Israel’s defense minister has signaled that ground forces will advance toward the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which has become a refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians pushed from their homes by nearly 13 weeks of war.
It was not clear whether Mr. Gallant’s reference to Rafah reflected an immediate military objective, or whether it was intended more as a signal of resolve to the Israeli public and Hamas while Israel awaited the group’s response to the cease-fire proposal.
Hamas’ top political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said in a statement on Friday that the group was studying the proposal but that it was insisting that the deal “completely end” the fighting.
For weeks, Israeli ground troops have been fighting intense battles in Khan Younis, where Israel says it is trying to kill or capture Hamas leaders it believes are hiding in and beneath the city in an extensive network of tunnels.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that Israeli forces attacked a hospital complex in Khan Younis on Friday and killed a number of people, including one of its employees.
Mr. Laerke, the U.N. spokesman, said on Friday that severe constraints on deliveries of supplies like food, water and medicine, along with escalating levels of disease, have increased the sense of desperation.
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