In the night from Wednesday to Thursday morning, “a significant amount of shelling” was registered in the east of Ráfah. Humanitarian aid no longer enters Gaza through any border, which is completely isolated by the Israeli siege.
About 80,000 Palestinians have fled in the past three days city of Rafahat the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, following the start of yet another attack by the Israeli army, which has stepped up its bombardment of the city and seized the Palestinian side of the border crossing, as reported on Thursday by the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
UNRWA said through its account on the social network X that “the burden on these families it’s unbearable. No place is safe.” In this sense, the agency regrets that “people are once again facing forced displacement in the Gaza Strip” and reiterates its call for a ceasefire, days after it assured that it will not evacuate its personnel from Ráfah despite calls in this regard by Israel and the beginning of his invasion.
According to testimony from EFE, for many Gazans forced to evacuate Rafah, it may be their third or fourth forced displacement in the past seven months.
The agency indicated that 47,500 people moved from Ráfah during the day on Wednesday, adding that these people are fleeing with what they can carry “in vehicles, trucks, motorcycles and donkey carts” towards the UNRWA shelters in Tel Sultan and Al Mauasi.
He also emphasized that “a significant number of bomb attacks” were registered in the east of Ráfah during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, as a result of the alarm by security services. UN about the lack of aid for the people of Gaza, who are already in a very vulnerable situation.
A situation that has worsened following the closure of the Ráfah border crossing, which was captured by Israeli tanks on Tuesday and from which, according to the UN, an average of 48 trucks carrying humanitarian aid and 166,000 liters of diesel entered Gaza every day.
More than 600,000 children live in overcrowded conditions
“Rafah is a city of children,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder said at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday. According to a report by Ráfah, more than 600,000 children live in overcrowded conditions. UNICEF warning that they are “extremely vulnerable and on the brink of survival.”
“Without fuel, trucks will not be able to transport crucial humanitarian aid. water pumps will stop working and the remaining hospitals will close“, the director of UNRWA warned last night, Philippe Lazzariniin your X account.
At the other intersection in the south, that of Kerem ShalomAid is also not being distributed to Gaza, UNRWA and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) have confirmed, despite Israel’s claim to reopen the territory on Wednesday.
For his part, the President of the United States, Joe Bidenhas declared for the first time that it will stop sending weapons to Israel if the country begins a “major incursion into Rafah,” where more than 1.4 million Palestinians are taking refuge, most of whom have been displaced from other parts of the country. Palestinian territory after more than seven months of attacks, in the belief that it could be used to kill civilians.
Source: EITB
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