Israel today called on Palestinian citizens to evacuate most of Rafah’s neighborhoods and head to the “expanded humanitarian area” in Gaza’s al-Mawashi.
The call for Israel to evacuate Rafah reinforces indications that the army is preparing to implement operational plans for a ground offensive in the southern Gaza Strip. In a post on the “X” platform, a military spokesman also called on the residents, as well as the displaced people of other areas in the Jabalia region, as well as in 11 other districts to immediately rush to the shelters located in the west of the city.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, 24 Palestinians were killed overnight after an aerial bombardment by Israeli fighters in central Gaza.
Despite strong American pressure, residents’ concerns, and humanitarian aid groups, Israel has announced it will go ahead with a military invasion of Rafah, where more than 1 million displaced people have sought refuge since the start of the seven-month war. .
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that so far, approximately 300,000 Gazans have moved to the Al Mawasi area.
Israel has announced that it will not win unless it uproots thousands of fighters from the Islamic Hamas movement, which it believes are deployed in Rafah.
Israeli tanks yesterday seized the main road dividing the city’s eastern and western districts, effectively encircling the eastern side, in an attack that prompted Washington to suspend US military aid.
The White House said yesterday that it was watching “with concern” Israel’s military operations, which appeared to be localized around the damaged Rafah border crossing and did not appear to reflect a large-scale incursion by Israeli military forces into the city.
The war was sparked by Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, which killed around 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages, according to Israel.
About 35,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s military operation in Gaza, which has as its objective the neutralization of Hamas, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The shelling has devastated the coastal enclave of Gaza, causing a profound humanitarian disaster.
President Joe Biden’s administration announced yesterday that Israel’s use of US-sourced weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza, in the harshest criticism of the US to date. of Israel.
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