Israel invades Rafah and the genocide will be completed with U.S. complicity

By Steven Sahiounie

May 12, 2024

When Israel can kill an American citizen, who was among the highest profile journalists in the Arab world, on camera and get away with it, that sends a very clear message about Israeli impunity, and Biden’s complicity.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza as Israeli warplanes and artillery attacked overnight, following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order to seize the Rafah border crossing in Gaza.

Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets in eastern Rafah telling people to flee and move to what Israel called a humanitarian zone to the north, as the Israeli military bombarded the area.

Israel has told Gazans to move to a coastal section of Gaza for months. But the UN has said it is neither safe nor equipped to receive them.

Rafah, a city of around 170,000 before the war, has swollen to more than one million as Gazans driven from their homes in other parts of the enclave have taken shelter there. Conditions there are catastrophic, with inadequate shelter, sanitation, medical care, food and fuel.

A hospital in Deir Al Balah in central Gaza said it received 24 bodies, and reports of the heaviest assault are in the central and eastern areas of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, with air strikes in the south and the vicinity of the Rafah crossing.

Netanyahu said the Israeli military would proceed with an assault on Rafah, where it believes Hamas fighters are dug in. Tanks have sealed off eastern Rafah from the south this week, capturing and shutting the only crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a vital route for supplies.

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PDF: StS12.5.2024

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See also:

UNRWA denounces ‚Israel’s safe zones‘ as false

UNRWA Chief Philippe Lazzarini rejects „Israel’s“ claim of establishing „safe zones“ for forcibly displaced Palestinians as „false and misleading.“

By Al Mayadeen English

May 13, 2024

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/unrwa-denounces–israel-s-safe-zones–as-false

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The ongoing genocide in Palestine

Article collection from May 10, 2024

https://afsaneyebahar.com/2024/05/11/20700098/

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