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.
U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview on Saturday that he’ll never leave Israel’s side, despite saying earlier that a ground invasion in Rafah was a red line because of the human toll it would take in Gaza.
Egypt will suspend the Camp David Accords—a peace treaty with Israel from 1978—if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes good on his threat to carry out a ground operation in Gaza’s Rafah...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military invasion of Gaza’s Rafah is another example of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza because these Palestinians have nowhere to go.
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said last week that the conditions on the ground in Gaza are so poor that the coastal enclave is “not really a habitable place anymore.”
One of the world’s worst humanitarian crises broke out in the Gazan city of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have tried to flee from the Israeli onslaught throughout much of the coastal city.