U.S. President Joe Biden, who once said he would withhold certain weapons from Israel if it invaded Rafah, has been orchestrating a pressure campaign on two senators to get them to agree on a deal that would send $18 billion worth of F-15s to the country carrying out genocide in Gaza.
Derrick Johnson, the head of the NAACP, the black civil rights group, called on the White House last week to indefinitely suspend weapon transfers to Israel amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza...
“We don't have electricity or running water or Internet or phone connection or anything,” Halima Tayah, 68, told The New York Times.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week told the world not to believe its lying eyes and said there was no humanitarian catastrophe in Rafah, where 1.7 million people are sheltering during the Israeli bombardment.
The humanitarian conditions in Rafah have gone from bad to worse after Israeli forces seized the city’s border crossing and ended all traffic into Gaza from two main entries.
Former President Donald Trump attacked U.S. President Joe Biden last week for threatening to withhold certain weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security advisor, told reporters on Monday that Israel will be making a mistake if it goes through with its plan to invade Rafah, which would “lead to more innocent civilian deaths, worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, last week and defended the genocide being carried out in Gaza and said one cannot support “Israel's goal of destroying Hamas and then oppose Israel when it takes the action necessary to achieve that goal.”
Israel announced last week that it plans on moving displaced Palestinians in Rafah to so-called humanitarian islands in the central part of the country as it carries out its next offensive inside the southern city where over 1.4 million people have been cramped and slaughtered for over a month.
Israel struck Rafah’s largest residential tower last week, claiming that Hamas has been using the 14-story building to conduct military activities.