Terrified families flee Rafah as Israel set to open all-out assault
Terrified families flee Rafah as Israel set to open all-out assault
Leaflet instructs Palestinians to leave southern Gaza city as Benjamin Netanyahu shuns pressure from Joe Biden
Tens of thousands of Palestinians were fleeing Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, on Saturday, after Israeli warnings to evacuate before an imminent military assault that will open a bloody new phase of the seven-month-long conflict.
Roads leading out of Rafah were choked with long columns of young and old, sick and healthy, riding in overloaded pick-up trucks and battered cars, in pony carts and on hand-pulled trolleys. Many walked, carrying their belongings, under a searing summer sun. Some were pushed in wheelchairs or even carried.
More than 150,000 people have fled Rafah – one of the largest displacements for many months – since the Israel Defense Forces ordered the evacuation of eastern neighbourhoods shortly before seizing the border crossing with Egypt to the east of the city on Tuesday in what the IDF said was a “precise, limited operation” to stop Hamas smuggling weapons or funds into Gaza.
Where the fuck do they go?
From tiktok streams and videos, a lot are fleeing north, against the advisement of the Israeli government/IDF.
Who would trust their advice at this point?
Well Rafah is the southernmost point of Gaza. The only direction they can flee is north.
Thanks for the info.
Man, I don’t think I could devise a way to more rapidly turn the vast majority of the civilized world against my country if I tried. Netanyahu is turning Israel into a pariah state.
I wish there was a god to take care of monsters
There is and the IDF murderers will all burn in hell for all eternity. Maybe they even get to share the same fires as the Nazis
How many more dead before these Israiles get their beach front property.
What's the total population of Gaza?
Plus the West Bank
Bibi better watch his back! If he goes through with this Joe Biden MAY or MAY give him more Weapons!
The IDF should be renamed to IAF or IKF