RAFAH (GAZA STRIP): Israeli airstrikes killed not less than 31 Palestinians – a 3rd of them kids – within the southern Gaza metropolis of Rafah on Saturday, hours after Israel‘s prime minister mentioned he requested the navy to plan for the evacuation of tons of of hundreds of individuals there forward of a floor invasion. Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t present particulars or a timeline, however the announcement set off widespread panic. Greater than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million persons are packed into Rafah, many after being uprooted by Israeli evacuation orders that now cowl two-thirds of Gaza’s territory. It isn’t clear the place they might run subsequent.
Saudi Arabia mentioned on Saturday that Israel’s deliberate military operation in overcrowded Rafah would trigger a “humanitarian disaster” and known as for the United Nations Safety Council to intervene. The dominion “warned of the extraordinarily harmful repercussions of storming and concentrating on” Rafah and affirmed its “categorical rejection and powerful condemnation of their compelled deportation”, in a overseas ministry assertion carried by state media.
Israel says that Rafah, which borders Egypt, is the final remaining stronghold for the Hamas militant group in Gaza after greater than 4 months of struggle sparked by the October 7 Hamas assault.
In Egypt’s first public response to Netanyahu’s announcement, overseas minister Sameh Shoukry warned that any Israeli floor offensive on Rafah would have “disastrous penalties,” and asserted that Israel goals to finally drive the Palestinians out of their land.
Saudi Arabia mentioned on Saturday that Israel’s deliberate military operation in overcrowded Rafah would trigger a “humanitarian disaster” and known as for the United Nations Safety Council to intervene. The dominion “warned of the extraordinarily harmful repercussions of storming and concentrating on” Rafah and affirmed its “categorical rejection and powerful condemnation of their compelled deportation”, in a overseas ministry assertion carried by state media.
Israel says that Rafah, which borders Egypt, is the final remaining stronghold for the Hamas militant group in Gaza after greater than 4 months of struggle sparked by the October 7 Hamas assault.
In Egypt’s first public response to Netanyahu’s announcement, overseas minister Sameh Shoukry warned that any Israeli floor offensive on Rafah would have “disastrous penalties,” and asserted that Israel goals to finally drive the Palestinians out of their land.
