This decision also Tensions deepen He held discussions with President Biden and increased pressure from Israeli society, which is critical of efforts to release hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Israel describes the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the stronghold of Hamas’ last remnants of its regular military forces and sees the border area with Egypt as a loose sieve through which weapons and supplies flow freely to Hamas.
Biden: He has a red line The administration has protested the Israeli military operation in Rafah, which has caused widespread destruction and death among Palestinian civilians, but has not yet said that the escalation of Israeli military operations in southern Gaza is on the brink of a major war.
The Israeli army Increased the number of troops stationed Seth Franzman, an adjunct Israeli fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said fighting continues in and around Rafah, more than two weeks after full-scale operations began.
“They are basically moving along a very narrow strip along the Gaza-Egypt border, which is about eight miles long. They took about 50% of it.,” He said.
However, the international community and the majority of humanitarian organisations believe that Israel’s ongoing military operation Around 1 million Palestinians are at riskPeople have been forced to flee multiple times, and humanitarian supplies have not been adequately scaled up to meet their needs.
” It is a fallacy that Gazans can move to “safe” or “humanitarian” areas“Each time, civilian lives are put at serious risk,” Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the former Palestinian refugee relief organization, wrote in a post on the social platform X.
He warned that 800,000 Palestinians had been forced to flee. It is worsening the humanitarian crisis.
“There are no safe zones in Gaza. “No place is safe. No one is safe,” he said.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Friday ordering Israel to halt its military operations in Rafah. Concerns that acts of genocide may occur Against the Palestinians.
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