“There is no safe place in Gaza anymore. The international community must take steps to prevent further atrocities,” a spokesperson for the United Nations organization warned.
The Israeli order to evacuate the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where 1.7 million Palestinians are crammed together (most of them having already been evacuated from other parts of the Gaza Strip), is in effect. “illegal” and “could have catastrophic consequences”The United Nations organization Human Rights Watch reported this in a statement on Friday.
HRW referred to the announcement of an Israeli military offensive against that city and to the following warning from the Jewish State: “It is clear that a large-scale operation in Rafah will require the evacuation of the civilian population from the combat areas.”
“There is no longer a safe place in Gaza. The international community must take steps to prevent further atrocities,” said Nadia Hardman, HRW refugee crisis researcher.
Both the UN and the US have expressed concern about a possible expansion of the Israeli army’s ground offensive against Rafah. last refuge for more than a million Gazans who have been fleeing the fighting for four months.
The State Department warned Thursday that a military operation in Rafah without adequate planning for the evacuation of civilians “would be a disaster.” disaster“.
For his part, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced this Friday that he has ordered the army to begin preparing the “evacuation” of the city of Rafah, as it is incompatible with the continuous defeat of the Palestinian Hamas -movement. the armed forces stationed in this city and its surroundings.
Source: EITB
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