Israel has ordered more people to flee Rafah as it prepares to expand its assault on the southern Gazan city despite international condemnation of its offensive in the densely populated area.
The UN estimates that about 150,000 people have already fled Rafah since Israel sent ground troops to the eastern edge of the city on Monday and seized the border crossing with Egypt.
Islamic Relief released a statement:
“I feel like this is the end. It feels like we will all be either trapped and killed in Gaza, or we will all be forced out. People have stayed in Rafah thinking it’s safe and hoping that global pressure would stop an invasion. But now we are abandoned by the world and everyone feels betrayed and let down.
“It’s an unimaginable scene, with tens of thousands of people looking for shelter. People are pale and thin, tired and afraid. There are children, women, elderly people and people with disabilities trying to flee in wheelchairs. Injured people have to leave hospital with recent bandages and bloodstains.
So people in Israel are sitting in fancy restaurants and cheering their singer in the Eurovision while a few miles away way their forces block food and medicine for starving children. And then we hear that Jewish students feel uncomfortable about pro-Palestinian protests. I wonder if there is a connection
@ExuberantM1norityGreen2wks2W
Are Jewish students in the US blocking food and medicine? Are pro-Palestinian protestors not eating in restaurants and listening to music? The irrational connection posed here does underline the root of discomfort felt by some Jewish students abroad: antisemitism. Students are uncomfortable because of calls made for the erasure of Israel itself, the insistence on doing so “by any means necessary,” and the accusation that they (Jewish students?) are “colonizers.” No matter how horrific the Israeli govt’s actions - it doesn’t mean that an entire country (including 7million Jews) will simply vanish.
Let's be clear: Israel's invasion of the Rafah border is a breach of the Egyptian Israeli peace agreement which puts limits on the troops of both sides of the border. Bibi is out of his mind and Prez. Biden is not doing what's right to stop a regional conflict.
The plight of the Palestinians is heartbreaking. The plight of Israeli hostages still in captivity and their families back home is heartbreaking. But Netanyahu and his right wing allies are prioritizing their own narrow political goals over rescuing the hostages, and easing the suffering of Palestinians. Their conduct is despicable and it is doing lasting damage to Israel's global standing.
It is truly hard to believe the level of sheer inhumanity that Israel has shown over these last seven months. I must say that my eyes have truly been opened during the course of this brutal war on the people of Gaza. I feel bad for having been so ignorant of the brutal occupation/violence that has Israel has been perpetrating against the Palestinian long before Oct 7.
Let's rush over a shipment of tissues!
@OpulentInd3p3ndentGreen2wks2W
All the voices from Holocaust survivors—all the books, the poems, the talks, the museums, the commemorations, the promise that “never again” would humans treat other humans so badly—it was all for naught.
We turn on the news today and all we see is humans treating each other horribly.
It is so discouraging. When I first visited the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, I was encouraged by such a heartfelt effort to make humans become sensitized to each other’s suffering.
But October 7th and the reaction to October 7th have completely disillusioned me.
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Hamas just killed 4 Israelis via rocket attacks on the Kerem Shalom crossing, which was used to transport aid into Gaza from Israel. This prompted Israel’s incursion into Rafah and the subsequent takeover of that crossing. The only way to get Gazan civilians aid effectively is to remove Hamas from power, and quickly.
@GranolaChloeGreen2wks2W
Purposely allowing civilians, and especially children, to starve because of the denial of humanitarian aid in a war is the highest level of inhumanity!
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